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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. Each patent filing will cost your company $10-30k and take 1-4 years. Under California law, employers may own inventions that are “related to employer’s reasonably anticipated R&D.”

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? How to manage costs - One of the biggest frustrations that people have with lawyers are unexpected costs. He mostly covers Southern California.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Our average delivery times to California are 50% faster than Amazon. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location.

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LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. And it's restricted to questions that address California law (so, California companies and California lawyers.) The co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. They are word docs so the.doc extension should work. Will try and fix today. I echo Peter's request.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Carlos - Here is a list of super angels along with what they invest in and where.