NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. It is not uncommon for startup directors to be more deeply involved in the operations of the business when the company is entering a new market, hiring critical team members or raising capital. Underpinning this growth is good governance.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

And please don’t tell us to hire a lawyer.) IP Ownership. There are three deadly mistakes that relate to intellectual property (IP) ownership, all of which usually surface when the investors conduct their due-diligence investigation: 1. Any IP created or acquired by a founder (e.g., code, logo, domain name, etc.)

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Vesting Software Review IP Intellectual Property 89

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? But if you can stomach that he’s a star and contingency work / risk sharing on IP claims is key! Here’s a hack for you.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. In testing tools, name your experiments something like “Category Page – Filter Area Focus – Desktop – GA12.”. This way, you can check that no other live experiment has GA12 in its name. How to fix it. The solutions are straightforward. Image source ).

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Analytics IP Metrics Conversion 88

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

My business doesn’t have IP. 100% of businesses have Intellectual Property (IP). IP is not just for tech businesses or inventors. Even if you simply decide to launch a crowdfunding campaign, you’re exposing your IP to risk. If a work for hire agreement is absent, the contractor, not the business, owns the contracted work.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP NDA 123

www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. They told us that the name on the business cards was a code name, and that the logo was deliberately misleading. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * They are actively hiring Perl programmers. My professional blog is. Categories.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It is essential to translate your brand name, slogan, and all the content visible to international customers. You can also hire an agency specialized in localization, while I’m sure they’ll overestimate the initial quote. Register Your Domain Names Globally. Setup Social Media Accounts with Native Country Name.

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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. If you can beat them, hire them or acquire them. Sometimes they sue instead. Or push regulations.

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Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 102

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. A name change—that’s all I wanted… to make the name more reflective of what was actually being taught. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.” break the silos!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In order to protect your business’s IP, learn the four different categories. Yes, your business has intellectual property (IP). In fact, 100 percent of businesses have IP. Your email list, logo, sales process, and even your website domain are parts of your IP. Three reasons to learn more about IP: 1.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Design 112

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. 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. Teach students how to fish in their careers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2015

Most website owners are more than happy to have the search engine bots (googlebot and bingbot, to name a couple) browsing their website all day long. Attackers use this invitation to damage online operations by spoofing the names of the legitimate bots and taxing application, network or infrastructure resources via illegitimate requests.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2024

And so it's advised that everybody follows through and makes sure that you do what you can to make sure that the mailbox providers and ISPs out there in the world know that this email is from you and that you authorized it to be sent from certain IP addresses. It's looking at that mail server's name and what that SPF record looks like.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2015

Trademarks can be granted for a variety of items, including logos, words, phrases, domain names, shapes, pictures, sounds, smells, and even special packaging. When you’re starting out in business, one of the top priorities is usually to develop the organization’s name, logo, slogan or other identifying factors. Using A Trademark.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I just signed an S-152 to approve the hiring of some external lawyers who want to join us to become judges. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. Kappos: We’ve hired Dr. Stewart Tate, a tenured Georgia Tech econ professor. Kappos: Backlog of the board is up to 20,000 cases.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

If you have managed to pull off success with something that 90% of other start-ups fail at, namely make it through the start-up phase, then you deserve some kudos. Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. However, don’t pause for too long admiring your success. 2 License Your Product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. 10 a month, $50 a month, whatever, and then they get the user name and password to access their membership site; Then they get access to all the content that you allow them access to based on how long they’ve been a member. Jason: Hey.

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Kodorra

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

A provisional patent, as the name implies, is like a temporary patent that gives you an edge in the filing date (also known as a priority date). You could hire an attorney in the U.S If it never crosses your business plan mind to sell your product or exploit your patent in the U.S, then you might want to forget this. When the U.S

Intellectual Property 40

Intellectual Property United States IP Bankruptcy 40

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 7, 2014

Just to be clear, Reservationhop--the line jumping fake name reservation making most hated startup idea on the internet right now--is not a particularly good idea. - IP masking FTW! People are up in arms over Reservationhop --the service that sells off hard to get reservations made under assumed names. Screw the law!

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

So it could be a sweeping turn, like a new product launch or, you know, refocusing your company, or it could be a minor turn like, uh, or a less sweeping turn like who you hire or who you fire or how you price your products. check out our free marketing assessment and learn where you are with your strategy today.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. A good rule of thumb is to raise money when you need to start hiring, but this really depends on the context of your startup. Patented Technology? Who to raise from?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2016

After all, building a business by marketing your idea, finding partners, hiring contractors and seeking financing all create opportunities for your idea to be stolen. Unless you have baked in the proper IP protection, it’s far too easy for a great idea to be replicated and for you to be out of the game before even getting started.

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IP Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property United States 100

Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property NDA 60

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

So I began a complete re-design of the site with a high-end designer named Ryan Scherf, and I worked with a contract developer to have the new design applied to the existing 200 or so pages. I hired a lawyer with experience in IP website acquisitions to draft up a custom agreement. For escrow I used escrow.com.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review NDA 53

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Ideas are cheap.

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 4, 2020

And then I work with them to transform their customer experience, and what I find is most of the companies that hire me are already doing pretty well. You hire someone like me and I mean, there’s many different ways to do it, but you can hire someone like me to be your customer and see how it goes. And it is hard.

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Customer Hiring Naming Sales 68

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…).

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Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

His first book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, introduced the concept of Contact Marketing and was named one of the top 64 sales books of all time. He is a twice-nominated hall of fame marketer, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center author-in-residence, and was named the “Father of Contact Marketing” by the American Marketing Association.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

That’s how account-based marketing got its name. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale. Your pilot plan gives you an idea of how many accounts to go after; now, you need to put names to it.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. As for the employer, I would say don't compete with your employer and don't come close to using any IP of theirs. You could make a whole site dedicated to people holding down a day job but also seeking to make their own IP or buisness come into profit.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. Let’s hire freelance writers. What’s the best way to localize results? I was just curious if you were doing work for U.S.

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SEO Kansas City Kansas Missouri 60

konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. And maybe more importantly what do you think you get when you hire a CTO?

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CTO Hire CTO Hiring Technical Review 40

ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2016

The simplest fix is to set up IP filters to see what your GA data looks like with your computer’s site visits taken out. You can create a filter that only allows good domain names through, but that runs the risk of missing legitimate new traffic that you haven’t added to your list of approved referral sources.

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Analytics Social Media Channel Campaign 48

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Need creative inspiration or client overflow help without hiring? Effortlessly set your clients apart with custom naming and design. Effortlessly set your clients apart with custom naming and design. Trademark law protects only the name of a typeface, but not the design of the typeface. Master work overflow.

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Intellectual Property Design Marketing Software Review 108

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Examples include your mother’s maiden name (a common security question asked by banks and financial institutions), your social security number, your date of birth, etc. To put it more bluntly, the more the number of companies receiving our resume, the greater will be our chances to get hired. Conclusion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It is possible and he’s showing people that.

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