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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

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6 Landmines To Avoid In Web Development Contracts

YoungUpstarts

You’ve graduated from doing business with a handshake to a generic written contract downloaded from the Internet. Web site development contracts can be legal minefields, as many web site developers learn the hard way. What happens if the web site goes down? Congratulations! But don’t pat yourself too hard on the back.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

(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.) First, you should definitely care.

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10 Tips For A New Venture To Survive The Early Years

Startup Professionals Musings

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

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10 Financing Alternatives For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.

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10 Keys To A Startup Surviving The First Five Years

Startup Professionals Musings

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death.