crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You’re more likely to succeed if you start your business with a specific product or service designed for a particular group of people. Or, by designing the most durable children’s activewear. Consider branding yourself as an expert in real estate, personal injury, family law, intellectual property, or even admiralty law.

Angel Investor 85

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Taking that first salary after a long dry spell is an inspiring moment, and a great celebration with friends. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Taking that first salary after a long dry spell is an inspiring moment, and a great celebration with friends. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

You no longer need to travel to China or hire an expensive prototyping expert to mock up your new design. Create and register intellectual property online. Look for free help at a local university or find one of the new maker spaces, such as TechShop , where you can rent time and equipment to do the job yourself.

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Intellectual Property LLC Social Media China 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Taking that first salary after a long dry spell is an inspiring moment, and a great celebration with friends. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Marketing is top priority.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Viral Salary 222

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign real value to intellectual property. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

You’re more likely to succeed if you start your business with a specific product or service designed for a particular group of people. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. salaries or wages for any employees. any license or permit fees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign real value to intellectual property. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign real value to intellectual property. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)? NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign real value to intellectual property. How much is NewCo worth to investors at this point (pre-money valuation)?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

As the product stabilises and gains traction, however, the business needs to ramp up talent that can handle not only design and development, but also sales, marketing, customer support/success and ops. Eventually the company should graduate to hiring senior expertise across these functions. The talent, however, cuts the mustard.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. Today, crowdSPRING is the world’s #1 online marketplace for creative services ranging from graphic, web and industrial design to copywriting services.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2017

As part of the violence design for the production the theatre asked me to either create or buy stage blood that was safe for the actors butwouldn’t stain the set or costumes. The website features a four step process to design your own flavor from 35 flavors, 40 mix-ins, unique packaging choices and your own title.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Subscription boxes are nice because they’re designed to retain customers. Consider landing page design , easy email sign up, and potential deals for pre-subscribers during the pre-launch promotion as well. Will you have a custom box designed, or will you keep it super simple at first? Intellectual property.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Ideally your executive summary will be 1-2 pages at most, designed to be a quick read that sparks interest and makes your investors feel eager to hear more. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. The critical components of a winning executive summary. Profit and Loss Statement.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Workforce management software, also known as WFM software or human capital management (HCM) systems, are digital tools designed to plan, manage, track, and assist in the daily operations of an organization. Before we list the best workforce management systems you can use, we need to define what workforce management software is.

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Software Review Software Employee Management 52

www.startupsmart.com.au

MARCH 8, 2011

Keen to escape Another brave soul who left a good job working for someone else to focus on developing a start-up is Kath Purkis, founder of fashion e-tailer Le Black Book. “I had a dream job working for an Australian designer but I knew working for someone else was never going to completely satisfy me,” says Purkis. This full day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. salaries or wages for any employees. Your company name , your company logo , and your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Make that first impression a good one with a well-designed site.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

It was as though I figured out what I should be doing with the experience I was so recently afforded because I think that designing my own life, but also getting to figure out. Whereas, taking the job at X company, advancing to Y position, attaining Z salary, didn't feel natural. It was the place where I can do the most good.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. More generally,design your product to please users first, and then think about howto make money from it. Thats nonsense.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

They pay him the smallest salary he canlive on, plus 3% of the company in restricted stock, vesting overfour years. (So 7 ] They also spend a little money on a freelance graphic designer. Terrible things happen tostartups when they run out of money, because theyre designed forgrowth, not adversity.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Without receiving a real salary, I’d be wary of signing a non-compete in an area which I have domain expertise in. I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets? You don’t have a defensible business model.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 12, 2010

There is a base salary, which is the norm as opposed to piecemeal work which I think most Americans assume how China works, housing and meals, and lastly there is health insurance. The near term consequence of the worker shortage is that wage inflation is already a reality, as well as worker perks and benefits.

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