Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

You’ll need the EIN to pay taxes for your business, apply for licenses and permits, open a bank account, and hire and pay employees. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. Unsure of how to handle some of these startup steps?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

Regardless of your industry, your startup needs legal assistance to ensure its growth remains safe and secure. You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. But the startup is working diligently to build AI solutions. The Real Legal Solutions for Startups. Intellectual property creation. Regulation.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Onboarding a new remote developer is arguably one of the most important things you can add to your core competencies if you want to assure your new hires’ success. Today, with COVID-19 making every new hire remote, excellence in onboarding has become even more crucial. Daily scheduling and communications policies are loose or absent.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

One of the questions I’m most often asked by CEOs is how to hire sales people. I’ve written a lot about recruiting and hiring at startups including my controversial post on whom not to hire and my rapid response to the flame war. Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice' He’s insane.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2019

Make sure you click here to learn 5 times you need to hire a startup attorney. They will fail to hire a startup attorney. Here are four crucial reasons you need to have a startup attorney on your team. . For most startups, it will be overkill to hire a lawyer for formation. Hiring Employees .

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Intellectual Property Hiring IP Startup 81

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

In addition, several gaming companies announced layoffs, including Unity and Niantic and many others froze hiring. We are in the experimentation stage, where brands, IP, communities, are testing the waters for relevancy, connection with the younger fans, and new income potential. While mobile game revenue was down 6.6%

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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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., Vesting Restrictions.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

Those are the first three items on every tech startup's checklist (more or less). Much farther down the list - if it's there at all - is the security plan the startup needs to protect its brilliant idea from theft. Most startups take the obvious measures: Be careful who you hire. That needs to change. And many more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch. For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” In fact, I would argue that most people don’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

“Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. per engineer.” of the time my answer is no f **g way].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. He wanted to raise angel money.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Sometimes it is just the right time to sell your startup. However, having sold my own venture for millions of dollars, I can tell you that getting acquired and finding the right startup exit is 10 times harder than raising capital. . You can check out the other nine big lessons I learned in selling my startup in this Forbes article.

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Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 102

Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

You will never be able to take the brand risks, the legal risks, or the partnerships risks that a true startup can. Many quarters and dollars later, the Western CEO leaves with some China experience and the Chinese partner keeps the IP, money, business… You cannot fight the nature of the beast, this is China. Noam Bardin of Waze.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

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. Google so far has played nice with startups and has had a positive impact on the startup eco-system (especially for exits, less so for hiring!)

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Stealth Mode Startup. If youve read my Cult of the NDA article (which, by the way, remains one of the most-read articles on this blog), then you know that I think good luck and good execution are far more important to success in a startup than a Really Big Idea. They are actively hiring Perl programmers. on a hosted basis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. Great startups have budgets. This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs.

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. – Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For a VC fund to be actively engaged in a large number of investments, it needs to hire more Partners to sit on more boards. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. " We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. " We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

In this age of rampant IP theft, your business needs to take active steps to safeguard its cloud services information. New hires should, at the very least, be given background checks. Furthermore, ethical tests and character evaluations should be a part of your hiring process. Workplace Entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. In a startup, you are the brand. You need to do it yourself.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. Click around on the various topics to find some amazing resources.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

In the emotional turmoil of a startup it’s easy to forget that you’re supposed to be having fun now and then. Of course most startups terminate this way anyway don’t they? Want to work with me on a startup? Blowing people’s minds by doing something awesome is a blast. And that counts too. Details here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. In a startup, you are the brand. You need to do it yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. In a startup, you are the brand. You need to do it yourself.

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Public Relations Elevator Pitch Startup IP 226

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As you are forming your new business, creating new products and hiring new employees as your company grows developing new materials, you will encounter scenarios where you need to create, review, and sign contracts. Therefore, it’s often a good idea to hire a contract lawyer to have on retainer. Contract Lawyer.

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Intellectual Property Idaho Entrepreneur IP 100

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. 2) You’re hiring employees. October 2011. (1)

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A fter years of talking with many of you in the Israeli startup industry, investors and entrepreneurs alike, I was invited to present some tips for entrepreneurs at the Launch48 conference in London this weekend. The talk was titled “Tips to make your startup attractive for investors&#. Sell your team, not your advisors.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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. More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2019

In the uber-competitive startup world, surviving is success in itself. Conventional wisdom says that 90% of startups will fail. The same is true for tech startups. So we should be teaching startups to work with what—and who—they have. For this reason, self-awareness is key to survival for startups.

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Cofounder Startup Private Equity Equity 118

Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. In a startup, you are the brand. You need to do it yourself.

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Elevator Pitch Startup IP Public Relations 158

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. The post 3 Ways to Grow Your Startup appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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