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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Who can I hire later? Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? How do I decide who I need to have on board on day one?

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Business Prenup: What To Do Before You Start A Company With A Partner

YoungUpstarts

Hire professionals. If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? Protect your company’s customers, employees and intellectual property. Before you get started, though, think pragmatically on the front end to avoid headaches at the back end.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property. In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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10 Keys To Real Innovation In Your Next New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. This includes personal and team commitments to delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing, and distribution requirements. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation.

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Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels

Steve Blank

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Diagnostics. Week 3 Todd Morrill Instructor .