Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Intellectual property is required for a competitive edge. You may think that patents and copyrights are not required, since your products are so innovative, but you will find that competitors are quick to copy your idea if you don’t protect it. Survival requires regular updates.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

(Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. entrepreneur startup name intellectual property trademark'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Internet was young back when the patent was first filed by the Company, and their patented product allowed a visitor to dial into a computer (does anyone remember dial-up electronic bulletin boards?) Intellectual property is the principal asset of must every technology company. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. This success story rests on an architecture—both technical and legal—that has allowed for innovation without permission.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

You’ve graduated from doing business with a handshake to a generic written contract downloaded from the Internet. Make sure your contract protects you from potential liability, non-payment after delivery of work product and other unintended consequences. Who is liable for possible intellectual property rights infringement?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Come with a product built and a proven business model. Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media. In today’s world, if your startup is not visible on the Internet, you haven’t started yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Software crowd sourcing.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2019

Businesses need to protect their brands and intellectual property in their country of origin – and abroad. With many companies taking advantage of the access to global reach that the Internet has afforded them, or are now trading online in other countries, protecting their brand overseas has come into focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. These ideas can grow quickly into real products. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Learn to be a generalist rather than a specialist.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

Businesses all over the world – including startups – have sourced their product manufacturing in China for over a decade now. A few prominent companies have indeed made the decision to move production out of China in the past few months. First, labour costs comprise only one part of the cost of the product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

It's common for older products to compete on the fact that they have more features than the competition. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. Indeed, the next company can observe what works well and what doesn't, and than improve on your innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

In the jungle, it might be the strongest jaws, but in startups it’s more likely the strongest intellectual property. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Software crowd sourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Get your Internet domain name and website. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Build a prototype product. This must be someone who is willing to pay real money for your product or service. Close at least one initial customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

Talk about competitors with positive statements about the advantages of your own product. For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” Emphasize intellectual property and dynamic product line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Start even before the product is ready. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

Thierry LeVasseur is here to tell you that they come in part from a deep understanding of where the needs and gaps exist within the products, services and technologies we use in our daily lives. Take intellectual property. We’ll see big gains in economic productivity as a result.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. More features than anyone.”

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