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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend a trial run with an experiment or MVP (minimum viable product), at full price and cost, before the big bang launch, risking your investment money and a major time commitment. With my software background at IBM, I’m well aware that technical early adopters value more and more features, and are able to deal with complexity.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Gust

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Understanding Virtual Data Rooms And Their Significance Today

YoungUpstarts

This required high operational costs like round the clock staff, abundant paper supplies and couriers. However, virtual data room software came as a huge relief to many companies because it reduced wastage of time and numerous expenses made to physically store data. The old PDRs were quite cumbersome due diligence processes.

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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

abovethecrowd.com

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming.

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Self-billing: Turning Payouts to Service Providers Into B2B Experience

Transformify

Those businesses hiring remote teams face a common challenge – their service providers and freelancers demand to be paid in either local currency or some preferred foreign currency like USD, GBP, EUR, etc. Even more, the invoices can be directly uploaded into the clients’ ERP or accounting software. Self-billing agreements.

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