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8 Portfolio Assets Are Key To Your Startup Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key elements: Company name. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. Sole proprietorships need to trademark the name to protect it. Internet domain name. This name (www. Social media accounts. Trademarks.

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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. Most traditional, bricks-and-mortar businesses have substantial, often enormous hard assets, such as raw materials and supplies, work-in-process, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate and more, as well as armies of employees. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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

Steve Blank

That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Outside the U.S.

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Your New Venture IP Portfolio Sets Investment Value

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key elements: Company name. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. Sole proprietorships need to trademark the name to protect it. Internet domain name. This name (www. Social media accounts. Trademarks.

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8 Intellectual Property Items Every Startup Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key elements: Company name. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. Sole proprietorships need to trademark the name to protect it. Internet domain name. This name (www. Social media accounts. Trademarks.

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Every Startup Needs Intellectual Property To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key elements: Company name. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. Sole proprietorships need to trademark the name to protect it. Internet domain name. This name (www. Social media accounts. Trademarks.

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Are You Really Safeguarding Your Startup?

YoungUpstarts

As your startup business grows, making sure it’s properly protected is an absolute must. You might think that you’re protecting your startup properly, but are you really? While you can get non disclosure agreements printed out, having people sign these before you meet with them can be difficult. Install alarms.