Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It may be time to bring in a new executive team with visible integrity and a sterling track record, or round up some new advisors who have connections with the venture community. Strong intellectual property and defensibility. Every investor bets on the jockey, more than the horse. Opportunity and scalability are unlimited.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Well 80% of the folks I meet tell me they're way better than average at SEO, Twitter, and "building communities" whateverthehell that means. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. We're better at SEO and social media. Can't be true, right? So where does that leave us?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Most universities have friendly law professors, or an entrepreneurship legal clinic, to address concerns like protection of intellectual property and privacy. If you need experienced partners and vendors, the best professors and entrepreneurship staff will have the contacts you need in the local business community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. But patents and other intellectual property only go so far. Defensibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Software crowd sourcing.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In the area of intellectual property, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) constitutes a sound model of an Internet policy regime that allows for innovation and Internet-based entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Software crowd sourcing.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Remember, building a team is not just about filling roles; it’s about creating a community. Encourage open communication, recognise achievements, and provide opportunities for professional growth. It’s crucial to protect your intellectual property as well, including trademarks, patents, and copyrights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

There is an old saying in the startup investor community, “Smart investors invest in the team, not the idea.” Investors like to see new intellectual property as a barrier to entry. Giving the wrong people money doesn’t help at the idea level. Plan includes a business model with good margins.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

To help foster this innovation, many colleges and universities have opened business incubators, helping students and others in their community to help make their innovative dreams a reality. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. What is your competitive advantage?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

If the investment community doesn’t invest in a plan, there may well be some very good reasons why not. It might be adding the right people to your team, refocusing your market, beefing up intellectual property protection, validating your business with early sales, or something else. Common business investment rejection reasons.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" a communications tool for enterprises.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Maybe we are talking about community servants or folks we previously thought were community servants. We can be deliberate about these things.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

This is not to condone the violation of intellectual property rights, but if you have a generic product you want manufactured, say, an antique door knob that you really like, a factory in China will be able to mass produce it for you in less time than any other factory in the world. Chinese factories also reverse engineer really well.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ConnecTeen Minds is about creating a community of teenagers that were disconnected from their lives but by coming to my platform they were now part of a greater community. I also chose Garden Streets for the communities that I want to create through the company. ‘Streets’ is symbolic for this community.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to Shahram Shirkhani , international finance and law expert, it’s important to have an understanding of the practice of law in the global business community with a focus on economics. Property Rights. The intellectual property of one company may be licensed to another company in different countries.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Traditional businesses drenched in outdated notions of the value of intellectual property would be horrified to learn that we give away our software for free. We find and fix bugs in WordPress plugins that we didn’t write and contribute those back to the original authors and the community at large.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Danica is an entertainment, intellectual property and new media attorney with Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP. Danica Mathes, Ignite Dallas.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 26, 2015

Intellectual property. Intellectual: What kind of intellectual property do you have in your business? Company reputation: How does your clientele or community view your company? Here are a few categories to think about: Financial resources. Physical items. Think of buildings and equipment. Human resources.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

EntreLeadership is a community of respected thought-leaders and first-timers working together to help each other succeed. Yet, if you look in the right places, you’ll find communities of people doing some serious good for (and with) each other. EntreLeadership. Here are a few business-related subreddits worth checking out: 20.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The name Innovation Engineering is relevant: Innovation is about ideas that matter relating to new products or services, how we do our work, or even how we ignite social change in our communities. While ideas alone aren’t patentable, the methods or the proofs of innovative ideas are.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

This collaboration could extend to creating localized models that better understand and generate content for specific regions or communities, enhancing the relevance and reach of AI applications. This not only fosters community but also reinstates the media’s role as a public square for democracy.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Intellectual Property. That presents the tech entrepreneurship community with a genuine opportunity to influence outcomes. Giving privately held companies maximum room to maneuver as they raise funding from accredited investors and participate in secondary markets can only strengthen the startup ecosystem.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Serial entrepreneurs or those with close ties to the investment community would usually go straight to the big firm. What: The foundational corporate formation, governance, equity issuance and intellectual property assignment documents. Founders now have more options, which is a double-edged sword.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2013

While it’s true that communities of like-minded people exist both in the real world and online, it’s a rare innovator who’ll be willing to divulge the details of his work, especially in an age when more people than ever play fast and loose with intellectual property.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2016

Many new entrepreneurs seek financing from private banks that often aggressively seek out new business in the local community. Protecting Your Intellectual Property. Your idea for a business is a unique and valuable property that requires legal safeguards to allow you to make the most of market opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

By implementing this objective through your company’s offering, you can add value to the community and establish the service your company provides the public. My company is an intellectual property holding company, but it ultimately aims to accelerate and regulate the utilization of regenerative technology.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 6, 2017

This motivation model is the intellectual property of BEYOND REASON. We love being part of a group , community, or team. Tesco demonstrates a desire for empathy and compassion for people less fortunate than ourselves through their Community Food Connection initiative. People are extremely social animals.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. Here are two awesome-sounding jobs that will remain posted till Wednesday, so please check them out promptly. The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Now open-source code libraries and developer tools allow organizations to use and build upon the work of external communities. IP (Intellectual Property) Vendors Also Offer AI Accelerators. No team or organization has to start from scratch, and many parts that used to require highly specialized expertise have been automated.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. I think my catalyst for taking the class was: How would some of these business ideas be useful to generate new ideas in the academic economics community?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. I think my catalyst for taking the class was: How would some of these business ideas be useful to generate new ideas in the academic economics community?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Define a business entity early to manage taxes and intellectual property. New intellectual property should always be assigned to a business. If information online only confuses you, make an appointment with your local community SCORE free mentoring office, or your nearest Small Business Development Center (SBDC).

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