Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

It’s a collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop NIH-specific version of the Innovation-Corps. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. identify financing vehicles before you need them. And that’s just what we’re doing at the National Institutes of Health.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. Attract investors and financing. The startups that typically receive the most dollars in first-time financings are ones that have at least four things going for them: Experience in related fields. Scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In this model, sometimes called micro-financing or peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, you borrow money from a number of people online and pay them back after the project is finished. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Debt-based crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. They need to believe your valuation, based on current revenue and intellectual property, and feel the equity offered gives them a real return for the risk. He didn’t have any big technical shoe innovations. Display real commitment to a plan, with milestones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. To attract investors and financing. The startups that typically receive the most dollars in first-time financings are ones that have at least four things going for them: Experience in related fields. Scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

In this model, sometimes called micro-financing or peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, you borrow money from a number of people online and pay them back after the project is finished. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Debt-based crowd funding.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Develop a marketing strategy that leverages both digital and traditional channels. Understand your costs, both fixed and variable, and plan your finances accordingly to sustain operations and fuel growth. It’s crucial to protect your intellectual property as well, including trademarks, patents, and copyrights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

Already, a Silicon Valley startup called Atrium has developed an app that hopes to automate nearly every task that forces startups to hire lawyers, which might include acquiring funding, merging, and being sued. Yet, Atrium is in its earliest stages, and the development of its vision will be time-consuming and costly. Regulation.

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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. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. It usually doesn’t end well.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

It might mean launching your site to gain early subscribers, developing a prototype and testing it professionally, or launching an app early in the app store to get pre-downloads. Your business finances may show a lack of stability and not enough traction to grow long-term. That’s what experts mean when they say get traction.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In order to get your invention and business off the ground, you will need to invest time and money on protecting your intellectual property , development, production and marketing. The nature of your invention, your business’s stage of development, personal circumstances and place of residence may determine your eligibility.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

Protect Your Intellectual Property. If you’re in your first year of developing your product chances are you haven’t yet found product / market fit and you don’t yet have enough value to sell your product for as much as you’d like. Control Size of PS Revenue Relative to Software Business.

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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. The nightmare scenario for founders is that they are heads-down and working on their startup for a number of years and finally get some headlines on a successful financing or exit. Introduction.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Alternatively, you can search AmericanBar.org to locate pro bono intellectual property attorneys in your area to see if there may be a pro bono patent attorney who is able to conduct research on your behalf and assist you in filing your patent. A patent provides a means to protect your intellectual property.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Think of financing an acquisition as an exercise with two parts that work in concert: 1) structuring a desired deal with a suitable target and 2) obtaining the funding. You might consider intellectual property and real estate, too, especially where their true value isn’t represented on the balance sheet. Obtaining the Funding.

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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. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. It usually doesn’t end well.

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China Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Non-Compete 215

The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

Second, China has an advantage over several developed and developing countries because it has invested in infrastructure and continues to invest in it. But labour will constitute a higher percentage of the cost for a stuffed toy, as cutting, stitching and stuffing the toy needs more intervention by workers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Write your business plan and develop your business model with this in mind so you can avoid these issues. . Name the products/services you will offer as your company earns more money and as your market develops new needs. Transportation within the cannabis industry remains a developing phenomenon, like many aspects of the industry.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 9, 2023

They impact fundraising, hiring, intellectual property rights and patents, and many more things around starting and running a business. For instance, if you are developing a unique technology, you better patent it. The good thing about these skills is that they can be developed, nobody is born with them.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. The Amazon Kindle played on Amazon’s strengths as a distributor of content but required developing expertise in electronics and manufacturing.

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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. Blake also founded Dynamo Labs, where he and his team develop solutions for the rapidly changing clean energy marketplace. Danica Mathes, Ignite Dallas.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

These include operational systems, production systems, sales and marketing systems, finance and legal systems, strategic alignment systems, idea decision systems, rapid research systems — and the list goes on. Develop systems that enable instead of control. But ideas can’t be random.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

For many start-ups, the central focus is developing a product that offers value to a target audience. Develop a strong backbone. All has to be well thought through and developed from the start in order to keep the speed up when you’re in the middle of execution and scaling. Listen to the right data.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2016

Finding Financing. Acquiring the amount of financing you need to adequately fund the business in the early years is one of the biggest problems that entrepreneurs encounter. Many new entrepreneurs seek financing from private banks that often aggressively seek out new business in the local community. In addition, the U.K.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We developed a kick-ass investor pitch and we started pitching it to family, friends, angel investors, and even venture capitalists for feedback. Have they worked with companies who have raised multiple rounds of financing to start or grow? Do they (or does their firm) have experience with intellectual property and patents?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. While it doesn’t eliminate great investor judgment, pattern recognition skills and mentoring, we’ve developed an Investment Readiness Level tool that fills in these missing pieces. Investment Readiness Level for Medical Devices.

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