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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question. In the Internet era, trademarks and domain names are closely interrelated, and both can be or become extremely valuable.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

When I asked our trade show manager she looked at me like I was the house idiot and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to set up our trade show booth?” The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. This is a big idea.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

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. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. Here’s an example of a great sell sheet for a product called Well Well Wow!

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

LinkedIn would create a networked resume document — a resume 2.0 — instead of traditional job listings with private resumes. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings. But we also had a concrete plan, which we began detailing in this slide. What will their concerns be?