Up and Running
JULY 5, 2021
And hiring an intellectual property attorney may seem like a budget dealbreaker. Applying for a trademark — Do it yourself or hire an attorney? Hiring an attorney. Why hiring an attorney for trademark registration is better for small businesses. Approaching the trademark registration process can be daunting.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 4, 2016
Every business takes time to scale and penetrate a market due to organizational growth, hiring, training, brand building and customer adoption. Dismiss the need to register any intellectual property. Hire helpers in lieu of people who are smarter than you. Hire people who can train you rather than ones you need to train.
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Up and Running
JULY 2, 2014
We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. So we hired another firm to help us facilitate the removal of this clause. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3%
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 23, 2012
New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation. A formalized process with timelines and milestones is a must.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 9, 2011
New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation. A formalized process with timelines and milestones is a must.
Business Plan Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2013
Product Development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with just your pre-seed, FFF capital. You will also need proposals for the cost to develop the minimum viable product (the features that allow the product to be deployed).
Business Plan Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital. If not, at the bare minimum you will need an interactable wireframe mockup that demonstrates the product.
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