Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. These also open new concerns about lost intellectual property, Internet scams, and long-term return on investment.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. (Having these two federal research organizations working together is in itself a big deal.) identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. These also open new concerns about lost intellectual property, Internet scams, and long-term return on investment.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 18, 2020

This article is the second of a three-part series by Dr Sudhanshu Ayyagari that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. Intellectual property rights are an indispensable consideration in ensuring your startup has the best possibility to succeed in the future. i) Disclosing your idea.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source. Traditional businesses drenched in outdated notions of the value of intellectual property would be horrified to learn that we give away our software for free.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Tesla Motors announced yesterday it has opened its patent portfolio in hopes of encouraging other companies to create new electric vehicles. In a blog post, CEO Elon Musk said this was done “In the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.”

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Remember to also do a trademark search at your country’s intellectual property office, such as USPTO (U.S Open source software or clone script is also available. As of June 2018, GitHub hosts 57 million open source project repositories. Patent and Trademark Office).

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

Then open source the results. This would drastically change the technology licensing game by simplifying it and shifting economic incentives aggressively to companies that actually commercialize (or productize) this research, rather than simply claim ownership to the “intellectual property.&#.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

You are protecting your graphic design business and your intellectual property by using signatures and watermarks. There is something powerful about a font that is made just for a client’s company, and you can even ask the client if you can share that font with open source programmers around the world. Keep Quality High.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Ensure IT activity falls within applicable laws and regulations (DPA, PCI-DSS, SOX).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider branding yourself as an expert in real estate, personal injury, family law, intellectual property, or even admiralty law. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

40-50 isn’t that much though, and software companies with license business models will need to keep their costs low and find efficient routes to market if they are to make good profits and become very valuable.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2014

I’ve always loved his hacker spirit, amazing ability to do things no one else could envision, and willingness to open source a lot of his work to lead the way for others. Virtual reality nightmare: ZeniMax challenges Facebook, Oculus for Rift intellectual property.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 12, 2018

Thievery sucks Don’t take other people’s physical property. Don’t take other people’s intellectual property (but please do contribute to open source). You can also always call building security at 512–320–5990 if you need assistance. Don’t take other people’s tacos. No weapons.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities). Ask developers if they’ve been involved with a previous web startup and what their role was in the startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. There are self-hosted open-source portfolio apps available that allow you to combine your uniquely branded website with a gallery of your work. Check out WordPress if you’re looking for a self-hosted solution.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

While some entrepreneurs have developed open and crowd sourced businesses (Redhat to Kickstarter) we should expect to see more open innovation and crowd sourcing on campus (beyond technological innovation) and this presents opportunities for entrepreneurs. We are trying an open source accelerator at George Mason.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. However, while getting started with thousands of users is cheap, scaling to significant numbers will require some dollars.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2012

TED is the latest to directly jump into the education market — offering something for those looking for online learning, open source edu, uncollege, hack edu, or any other angle on disrupting education. They are calling on top educators to step up and join in with a short lesson to share with the world.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The reports showcase raw data, analytics, visualizations, and benchmarking statistics on the company from dozens of sources, including team, intellectual property, technology, product, financial, banking, marketing, customer, risk, valuation, and investment information.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. This is what the BSD license was invented for, for example.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. As Viola points out, there are 5 main barriers to adoption: Security, privacy, intellectual property, performance, and cost.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. If this were a movie, ominous music would begin here.]

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets? Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. It hasn’t worked out well for me. Recent Posts. Categories.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Most global brands rent their own intellectual property from themselves – assets like trade marks, designs and even Artificial Intelligence are put into business units they own and control in low tax markets, to which they pay royalties for the use of them. Yes, it is a crazy as it sounds. Let me give you an example.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

So I think this is a brilliant step toward " open source law " which I've been advocating for a while.  ← There is Too Much Venture Capital…Not Too Little 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens → [link] Are You In Need Of A Payday Loan Now?   Building that must have been crazy.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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