SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. We wanted our potential clients to view as a non-nonsense company that gets things done – upfront, blunt and honest; with the end goal being sales and revenue for them, not simply the idea. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

But when it comes to that crucial second phase – go-to-market – entrepreneurs find themselves devoid of help and support. Most entrepreneurs have a solid product to offer, but in order to fulfill any dreams of scaling, they must first get their product into the market and generate initial awareness and interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

product that barely worked, no sales organization (except tech support, which often works better anyway ), and I just hoped they’d run a credit card. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. I had a $39.95 You land a contract to build them the solution.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Intellectual property (IP). Tags: strategy entrepreneur startups business. To form a basis for making better decisions. No strategy leads to no decisions or poor decisions. Scalability.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

When meeting with early stage entrepreneurs for the first time, after reviewing a demo or hearing their pitch, I often ask them to articulate what they’re most focused on building. I don’t fault entrepreneurs for relegating startup legal work to the bottom of their daily triage list; founders are spread incredibly thin.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011. The hope is to get even more experienced investors and entrepreneurs to invest in local startups and provide them with systematic management guidance and mentorship. Singapore Innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Intellectual property (IP). Form a basis for making better decisions. No strategy leads to no decisions or poor decisions. Attract investors and financing. Scalability.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. We looked at the IP and realized it was highly differentiated / hard to replicate.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

A big piece of the solution lies in the scalable impact of entrepreneurship and an increase of successful entrepreneurs. Max continued, “That’s why I’m really interested in ways of optimizing the entrepreneurship ecosystem to allow more entrepreneurs to go from idea to reality. I was feeling pretty old.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. The post Opinion: It’s a startup world appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners why they started their own businesses and here are their responses. #1- With my experience in content creation and business -to- business travel sales, I knew the ins and outs of the travel industry. Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 25, 2020

Product collaborations involve a range of intellectual property (IP) and other commercial issues. What IP is being licensed? Will any new IP be created and, if so, who should own it and who should be allowed to use it? This usually includes a royalty based on the net sales amounts received by the manufacturing party.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? Legal threats from other IP holders? It’s the norm more than you think. HR & Legal.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2019

When you do this, you collect royalties, sales agreements, or many other models that will generate income for you by allowing other companies to utilize your intellectual property. You Can Use Your IP Rights For Leverage. In addition, you can sell your IP along with your company (or separate from the company).

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The dream of every entrepreneur is to build a company successful enough so as to one day be able to attract a buyer to and for it. And a boost toward a faster timeline and better probability of a business sale at an exciting price. All of which come back to us whether or not we actually consummate a business sale. Relationships.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners why they started their own business and here are their responses. #1- With my experience in content creation and business -to- business travel sales, I knew the ins and outs of the travel industry. Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Not every entrepreneur or business owner is comfortable negotiating. I’ve negotiated with thousands of people (for 13 years as an attorney and for the past 10 as an entrepreneur and business owner). I’ve negotiated with thousands of people (for 13 years as an attorney and for the past 10 as an entrepreneur and business owner).

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

On top of that, most of a school's major donors are likely to be entrepreneurs in some way. I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. Kick the students out. Connect with your alumni better.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

link] A compliment or IP rip off with me and @ rentoid as the victims? And populating your website to make it meaningful takes a lot of boot leather, which is something many web entrepreneurs are afraid of. I was a bit annoyed at first. and sent out a tweet to assess the mood of my army of advisers on twitter.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. The fact that one young startup and entrepreneur could displace them and disrupt their years of dominance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

See Why Are Revenue-Based Investors Investing in Women & Diverse Entrepreneurs? Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Flexible VC offers you this. Lower level of community familiarity.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.   When we talk to entrepreneurs (or explain to others what we do) we often explain this in risk terms. Growth generated by market demand and sales can be very complex.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs play to win and they take losing seriously.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2016

While this could be a great mantra for the old stereo you have in the garage, it is not the philosophy for creating success as an entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, there is one thing that will be limited, and it is your resources – time, money, energy, free labor, et cetera.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

My first role was in sales and the buyers on the platform absolutely loved the access to global freelancers, the low hourly rates, and the full transparency and flexibility in the system. Realistically for entrepreneurs, no matter how hard you try, you’re going to make hiring mistakes. What’s important is to correct them quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to learn how to register a trademark , as well as other dos and don’ts surrounding the protection of their precious intellectual property. Spend some time looking into existing trademarks yourself or, to be absolutely confident of your rights, hire a lawyer who specializes in IP law to help you get everything in order.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A four-time tech entrepreneur, his most recent company Immersion Neuroscience is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real-time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, advertising, and live events. He's a professor at Claremont Graduate University, a four time tech entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Intellectual property (IP) may be a business’ most valuable asset. Patents, copyright, trade marks and registered designs all provide different types of IP rights that can protect an innovation. Registered designs can be a cost-effective and valuable form of IP. Get entrepreneur articles by email once a month.

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