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Merger and Acquisition Due Diligence Checklist

The Startup Magazine

This may include things like contingent liabilities , litigation risks, intellectual property-related issues, as well as problematic contracts. Technology and Intellectual Property. As a buyer, you should be interested in the company’s technology in addition to its intellectual property. Material Contracts.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Now is the time to catch the wave and just do it yourself.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies. Everything I’ve been talking about smart companies have already figured out.

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Microsoft and the future of software pricing–when free isn’t quite free

The Equity Kicker

In theory software delivered over or downloaded from the web has a marginal cost that is very close to $0 and a lot of people believe that software companies of the future will derive their revenues more from support, services and hosting than licenses.

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How to Start a Successful Photography Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. That means you need to prepare for the ups and downs of inconsistent revenue. You need to know how much revenue you need to cover the times when things are leaner. The Legal Stuff.