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How to Ensure Your Business Stays on The Right Side of the Law

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Intellectual Property: Guard Your Treasures In the age of information, your business’s intellectual property (IP) is like buried treasure. Whether it’s a trademark, copyright, or patent, protecting your IP is crucial to keeping copycats at bay and ensuring your brand remains uniquely yours.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. They could have helped us anticipate and solve organizational challenges and agree on how we planned to manage the risks. 3) We unknowingly set up an organizational conflict on day one.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s set up a framework. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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Enhancing Marketing Strategies with AI Assistance

Duct Tape Marketing

It's something that trademarked IP that I call the marketing hourglass. So you can pick any framework that you're familiar with out there, and there are many consultants who've produced frameworks. We have a very, as many of you longtime listeners would know, we have a very specific approach to developing a customer journey.

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How To Use Immersion To Create Amazing Experiences

Duct Tape Marketing

Zak about his framework for transforming nearly any situation from ordinary to extraordinary. 11:30] Is there a way to use this framework to create better digital experiences or automated experiences? [13:07] Using Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their creative operations. Dr. Paul J.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC offers you this.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

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. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. And getting bigger and bigger.