Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property. These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article is the third of a three-part series by Baldwins Intellectual Property that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. What is intellectual property? Intellectual property is about creations of the mind.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

Understanding the four main types of intellectual property is a preliminary step to intellectual property acumen as patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights each have their own legal protections. Does my company own its intellectual property? What should my IP strategy be?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Whether it is intellectual property theft, contractual disputes, or white-collar crimes like embezzlement or fraud, a single legal hiccup could significantly jeopardize your business’s future prospects. Protecting your innovation and safeguarding your intellectual property should be a top priority for any startup founder.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. However, what you don’t need is lawyers’ prohibitive fees, which can cost your startup hundreds of thousands of dollars — even millions — in just the first few years. Intellectual property creation. The Real Legal Solutions for Startups. Regulation.

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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. On the positive, the cost of living is amongst the lowest in the nation.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? Ask them how much they think such a solution would cost them. Make sure you own your IP. Not worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run. The cost for a single trademark is around $300.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

If their intellectual IP is stolen or if they are discovered to have been a launching pad for attacks against a larger business partner, it can mean going out of business. Hiring junior, or less experienced employees and keeping them once they are trained is a big challenge. Cyber insurance is often prohibitively costly.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The reality faced by entrepreneurs is that legal services can be expensive and IP protection may not be an initial priority. But having an IP strategy can help you get the most from your IP and help minimize common pitfalls and legal expenses. Trade marks. It’s best to select a mark and use it consistently.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Not only do enterprise-level businesses need to protect their intellectual property, but they must also protect physical assets. Register Intellectual Property. Once employees are briefed, a company can increase protection by monitoring activity and blocking sites that are known to cause or encourage breaches.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Notice what is missing from this list of priorities: The company itself – that is, a business entity, most often a corporation , that will own the entire business (however defined), issue equity to founders, take investment capital , enter into contracts, make sales, pay employees and contractors, and so forth. Good stuff!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business. 2) You’re hiring employees. 2) You’re hiring employees.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

What we at Traklight often take note of is the many different intellectual property issues that the show touches on. Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. See Also: Why You Should Care about Intellectual Property.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US. This also happens out of “startup weekends” where it’s unclear who contributed to the IP and where many people don’t continue with the idea beyond the first 30 days.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. This offers ample space for corporate partners to grow nearby with connectivity to NYC and many potential employees/interns from Yale. NYU just widened the door for more people to benefit from and contribute to their network, at nominal cost.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

On this Cyber Monday, I wanted to share an important article from my dear friend and trusted IP lawyer Rachel Rodgers. Mistake #6: Not protecting your valuable intellectual property. Intellectual property is “creations of the mind — inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names and designs — used in commerce.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Offer letters for employees.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 21, 2018

This includes various disastrous events such as all kinds of injuries, IP infringement, product issues, and so on. The fact is that General Liability Insurance most often costs a lot more than its counterpart. First of all, we have already ascertained that there is a significant difference in terms of coverage.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Not only is mediation often quicker, but it’s also significantly cheaper than a lawsuit, and you’ll be able to save a lot of money as well good relationships with your employees and/or business partners. They aren’t lawyers that are going to fight for your case and cause while navigating strict rules of law.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JULY 20, 2009

Creating intellectual property. If there is any IP created and there is more than one founder, then incorporating an entity and assigning IP to the entity is important. Hiring employees or third party contractors. The buyer bought the stock of the company as opposed to the app itself.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur.   However, I assume that the proposed business solves a real problem that people are willing to pay for and that it may be lest costly, more efficient, and IP-protected. [5]

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, many a BDC CEO has initiated a consultant to study cost cutting issues before announcing a significant layoff. Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

A world where big companies, small companies, freelancers and employees can all thrive. The High Cost of Free. While many of our digital services (like Facebook and Google) are free, they come with real costs. Another key feature of natural monopolies is that their marginal costs go down with more people using a single system.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets?

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