Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. software, songs, movies, web site content. _.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

With the explosion of online cybercrimes, cybercrime security is undoubtedly the next lucrative venture any entrepreneur should think about. Currently, there’s the universal dependence on specialized software and computers to keep companies operating, and more offices are transiting into paperless working spaces. Fundraising.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

You may also decide to trawl relevant forums to see what kind of reviews and feedback have been provided by other business owners who have used the service. Time which you, as a busy entrepreneur, is not likely to have. But that takes time. Plenty of time.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. When you're an entrepreneur, you have to make a lot of compromises.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Take part in startup investment due diligence. This is a good place to start.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Devin Miller is an entrepreneur who is also a patent and trademark attorney. As an entrepreneur, Devin wanted to help other small business owners learn about patents, trademarks, and copyrights so they can build value into their businesses and protect their assets. Miller IP Law Website. Like this show?

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Mistake #2 : not buttoning-down IP ownership issues (at 10:20). Mistake #5 : not doing your due diligence on potential investors (at 38:36). By the way, my favorite part of the video is when an entrepreneur (and former lawyer) walks in late to the workshop and acknowledges that she made the first three mistakes (at 33:14).

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

i) Rule 506 preempts State law, which means all you have to do is file a Form D and pay a filing fee; and (ii) no disclosure requirement/PPM Possible to sell to “friends and family” (e.g., issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies?

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Software Review Delaware Accredited Investor Due Diligence 111

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2019

With the ubiquitous reliance on PCs and specialized software to keep a business running smoothly, and coupled with the fact that more enterprises are making the transition of being paperless, many of the previously document-heavy operational practices have been shifted to the virtual realm. IP Management. Fundraising.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide aspiring entrepreneurs a perspective into all aspects of starting a new company. The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. ” The Cost of Financing.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2016

Unfortunately, most of the articles and reviews that you come across appear to be written by people who are being paid by hosting companies. You should know what kind of website you’re building, what types of applications and versions of software you need, and what your visitor volumes are likely to be.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks. I joked the other day that some of the best fairytales are written in Excel. What should our MRR growth be?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. The family farm was named Windhill Farm due to the fact that there was almost always a breeze blowing. Buttercloth was born.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Introduction This post was originally part of the “ Ask the Attorney ” series I am writing for VentureBeat (one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs). IP Ownership. You must confirm that none of the founders’ prior employers has any rights to the venture’s IP because he or she was “moonlighting” while previously employed.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Source code.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

This is due to businesses adhering to the General Data Protection Regulation standards. Some of these tools include a Code of Conduct or a formal certification from an accredited body. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We have filed patents covering the scientific ecosystem and blockchain integrations into the system.

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Andrew Payne

AUGUST 3, 2011

If you’re one of the five people that read this blog, you know I’ve become negative on many pure-software/Internet/mobile entrepreneurial projects. Low barriers to entry create a competitive, weedy ecosystem that becomes a lottery for many entrepreneurs. So, how do entrepreneurs avoid the lottery?

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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. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

The first time I asked them what they needed, they said they just need to crank out code. While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. And crank it out they did.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. IP Location Tools. Code Igniter.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. Think about that.

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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. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Most entrepreneurs have faced the situation of making a brilliant pitch, only to discover that all of their time and energy went into convincing the person who isn’t authorized to pull the trigger. I knew that we were a perfect fit, but the problem was that the company handled its IP troubles in house.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. To help with that, I’ve created a non-exhaustive list of questions to serve as a lightweight reference sheet for any new DTC entrepreneur. What happens at 3X? Will you ship internationally?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. I never built Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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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. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Share with 1 click: All entrepreneurs face the question: “when should I form a company?” 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It was my first time in the city and I must say that I was immediately taken by the energy of the city and of the entrepreneurs that I met at the conference. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running. What ever happened to “build it”? 2) Eliminate the friction by empowering your people.

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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. Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. I will review and reach out with some thoughts to help you. So as to reap a financial harvest and windfall. read more.

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