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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Still, you can use accounting software or work with a tax professional. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. If not protected, anyone can leverage your creations in their own products and services. Get business insurance.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. Intellectual property.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. The culture in a startup is also about moving fast, making informed guesses, learning when things go wrong (which they often will), and iterating and reiterating the design of the product or service until you get it right. Risk and reward.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. Sales cycle length increased. Content blindness.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. Debt or convertible securities (e.g.,

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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