Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Set realistic milestones and achieve some.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Set realistic milestones and achieve some.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs. These normally include people, tangible property, intellectual property, and cash flow requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Set realistic milestones and achieve some.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Set realistic objectives and milestones.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Finding your strategic partner, investor or business buyer is not something you do haphazardly. You and your advisors, board or partners should start by completing what you can of the matrix shown on this page. The post Finding a strategic partner, investor or buyer first appeared on BERKONOMICS. Think carefully.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

According to a 2021 NIH study , the primary areas that healthcare organizations need to focus on are: Phishing Ransomware Distributed denial-of-service attacks Malware The study also goes into greater detail about the challenges in cybersecurity and key solutions healthcare organizations have adopted to address them.

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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. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs. These normally include people, tangible property, intellectual property, and cash flow requirements.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Feasibility requires the teams to figure out what are the key activities, resources and partners they would need to deliver their product or service to their beneficiaries and their State Department sponsors. They’re also focusing on developing relationships with and getting buy-in from key partners like the Red Cross and other NGOs.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Feasibility requires the teams to figure out what are the key activities, resources and partners they would need to deliver their product or service to their beneficiaries and their State Department sponsors. They’re also focusing on developing relationships with and getting buy-in from key partners like the Red Cross and other NGOs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

One recent development has been that larger companies are now looking at small innovative companies in a new light — as potential partners in developing new products, processes and services. The result of all of these factors is to slow down innovation potential at large companies. A Case in Point.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. It’s code and portal combined, and it just took someone close to us to. understand what we were going for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs. These normally include people, tangible property, intellectual property, and cash flow requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every smart startup starts with a focus on a unique advantage, such as owning a distribution channel. Every business brings a set of existing customers who are great candidates for additional sales from a partner-competitor. If these elements are not your core competency or “secret sauce,” why not negotiate a sharing partnership?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

I taught the class this semester with Ann Miura-Ko a partner at Maples Investments. This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. Regulation and Intellectual Property. Teaching Goals. Customer Discovery.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intellectual Property. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intellectual Property. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. Technology.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 22, 2011

what distribution channel? They were going to start with the $81M Chlorine market where they already had a partner. Is their any patentable Intellectual Property? what’s the product? Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses. Decide what constitutes a pass/fail signal for the test.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a great resource to help you learn more about intellectual property. Patent Search.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If you partner with a large, wealthy private school district who wants you to provide comic book packages to all their eighth-grade students every month, that contract might be key your business survival for a period of time. What vendors can you partner with to give you discounted or free sample products for your box?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Identify your intellectual property or “secret sauce.” Trying to distribute initially through wholesale and retail, as well as online, is very risky from an investor perspective. Highlight the strengths of the entire team and partners. Patents are a good place for you to start. Outline your key activities to win.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Does each business partner own an equal portion of the business? Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. But, if you have intellectual property that is proprietary to your business and helps your business defend itself against competitors, you should detail that information here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The credentials of your prospective partners. When it comes to your prospective joint venture partners, be sure to verify any information that they give you. The values of your prospective partners. Partners should have similar values and goals, otherwise they are traveling in two different directions.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2015

But, if what you’re selling will be mass-produced, you’ll want to steer clear; although Etsy has recently made it clear that while they allow their sellers to potentially partner with outside businesses to make their products, mass-produced goods are not welcomed on Etsy. See Also How to Start an Etsy Shop. An eBay store.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. Good product and intellectual property are important, but the quality of the team is key. Strength of the Product and Intellectual Property. — Easily copied, no intellectual property. Marketing/Sales/Partners. Key partners in place.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Despite its recent financial crisis, the WIPO cites Cyprus as a country showing great potential in intellectual property and technology output.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Relationships.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Additionally, it will be important to consider whether you plan on attracting investment capital through the distribution of stock, because only certain types of businesses can issue shares of ownership. The major downside of the LLC is that distribution of stock is not permitted, although interests can be assigned (this can get complicated).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity.

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