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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

These days you can create a C-corp or LLC online quickly at a low cost, to serve you well in signing partners, intellectual property, investors, and revenue. Technical entrepreneurs need to surround themselves with people who have the financial, marketing, and operational experience in managing a business.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

Until mid-2013, the USPTO still operated on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent. We need a global solution. I’m a big supporter of building and protecting a portfolio of real intellectual property, and maximizing your startup’s valuation, but it shouldn’t be just a legal game. Marty Zwilling.

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

Women Entrepreneurs Can

No matter the size of your company or what industry you operate in, there are sure to be various rules that apply to you and if you do not stick to them, you could end up being fined, possibly even prosecuted, and potentially put out of business for good.

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Business Immigration With CanadaCIS: How To Start A Successful Business In Canada

YoungUpstarts

With projections of steady growth in Canada by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), proactive business managers, executives, and entrepreneurs are moving fast to secure their spot in Canada’s expanding economy. Canada is indeed open to foreign investors and businesses. Canada’s Industry Strengths.

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6 Ways to Profit From Your Patent

Up and Running

Maybe the market for your intellectual property is diminishing or the technology is becoming less relevant. Before you sell, ask yourself the following questions: Is there any way to further develop your invention that might your intellectual property worth more down the road? . It might be time to sell the patent.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. The United States is reliant on a global supply chain for our goods, systems and services.

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Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition

Steve Blank

Our economic and foreign policy officials didn’t notice the four-alarm fire as we first gutted our manufacturing infrastructure and sent it to China (profits are better when you outsource); then passively stood by as our intellectual property was being siphoned off; and had no answer to China’s web of trade deals (China’s Belt and Road).