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8 Portfolio Assets Are Key To Your Startup Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t pick a company name until you are certain that you can get the comparable domain name, so Internet brokers won’t hold you hostage. Internet domain name. Significant differences will confuse your customers, and open the door to imitators and scam artists. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website.

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Startup Non-Disclosure Agreements are Overrated

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. Most investors and startup advisors I know hate them, and refuse to sign them. Who is right? Let me try to put this question in perspective.

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6 Success Stages Every Entrepreneur Idea Has To Pass

Startup Professionals Musings

There are lots of resources available for that question, including the Internet and mentors like me. Ask some potential customers to see if there is real interest, and start thinking about price versus cost. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA).

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Your New Venture IP Portfolio Sets Investment Value

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t pick a company name until you are certain that you can get the comparable domain name, so Internet brokers won’t hold you hostage. Internet domain name. Significant differences will confuse your customers, and open the door to imitators and scam artists. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

The gulf has widened with the proliferation of social Internet / user-generated content and mobile application startups. In the Internet era, trademarks and domain names are closely interrelated, and both can be or become extremely valuable. Tech startups are at the other extreme. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. He continued: “I’d like to convince my boss so our company can be your first customer.”

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Every Startup Needs Intellectual Property To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t pick a company name until you are certain that you can get the comparable domain name, so Internet brokers won’t hold you hostage. Internet domain name. Significant differences will confuse your customers, and open the door to imitators and scam artists. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website.