Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Focus is the keyword here.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

You don’t want a senior partner preparing documents for an incorporation, nor do you want a third-year lawyer negotiating with a seasoned venture capitalist for you. A junior lawyer at a small firm in a smaller city may charge $150 an hour, while senior partners in big firms in major cities have been known to charge over $1,000 an hour.

Hiring 56

Hiring LLC Intellectual Property Private Equity 56

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Finance Raleigh Mezzanine 124

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Intellectual Property. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Tools & Research.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Focus is the keyword here.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Focus is the keyword here.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. In China, respecting copyright and intellectual property is still something that locals do not really practice.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

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. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. Getting your start-up through its initial phase of the business cycle is a tough challenge for small business owners.

LBO 64

LBO Merger Social Media Startup 64

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Dylan’s Desk: New security threats target intellectual property, infrastructure. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank : Somewhat serendipitously through a contact I made through IBM, I learned about this opportunity in NYU… to create a new venture fund to essentially do very similar work to what I’ve been doing inside Lucent and the venture partners … to work with researchers and invest capital to create new startups…. I was 22, 23 at that time.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 120

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. STANLEY FISCHER NAMED WORLD’S TOP BANK GOVERNOR FOR 2010. Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four&# global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79