Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

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Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 262

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. A narrow scope doesn’t help your case either.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Dilution Differentiation 417

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Non-Compete 317

Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 317

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

This element is usually called technical due diligence and typically consists of a day with your engineering and marketing team led by internal team leaders. Related discussions include intellectual property status and plans. This is really an assessment of the team and internal processes as well as the product.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Intellectual Property 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 225

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Partner 147

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 147

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. A narrow scope doesn’t help your case either.

Intellectual Property 234

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Dilution Differentiation 234

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Create and register intellectual property online. In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Building the prototype can be fun.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property LLC Social Media China 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

Technical Review 391

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 391

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Partner 244

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 244

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Partner 120

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Most universities have some sort of an entrepreneurship legal clinic, to address concerns like protection of intellectual property. If you need part-time engineers to build a prototype, you can always find high-caliber grad students with the latest theory ready to work. Finding a team.

Phoenix 235

Phoenix Intellectual Property Arizona Incubator 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution. Here I recommend a 5-year projection of revenues, expenses, and funding requirements.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

Technical Review 215

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 215

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

Many great technology solutions, such as hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make into a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure.

Technical Review 266

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 266

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2016

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Intellectual property is tough. Sophisticated search engines. I’m already seeing search engine parameters that can match image features, so singles will soon be able to search cyberspace for their ideal partner, without the need to join any dating site.

Intellectual Property 337

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 337

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Intellectual property is tough. Sophisticated search engines. I’m already seeing search engine parameters that can match image features, so singles will soon be able to search cyberspace for their ideal partner, without the need to join any dating site.

Intellectual Property 215

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 215

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Intellectual property is tough. Sophisticated search engines. I’m already seeing search engine parameters that can match image features, so singles will soon be able to search cyberspace for their ideal partner, without the need to join any dating site.

Intellectual Property 229

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 229

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2016

For a new startup, the best way to assure survival is to file patents or other intellectual property to keep future competitors from copying your success. Google or other search engines could add image-matching or other focus to capture this market. Facebook spent $150 million before positive cash flow.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Matching Angel Investor Bootstrapping 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

Intellectual property is tough. Social networks and search engines. Or how about the next generation search engine, answering the question, “Who is my ultimate soul mate?” This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users.

Intellectual Property 124

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 124