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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. The four types of intellectual property are trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and patents. Trademarks are an easily recognizable form of intellectual property.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Last year a set of specific AI apps caught everyone’s attention as AI finally crossed from the era of niche applications to the delivery of transformative and useful tools – Dall-E for creating images from text prompts, Github Copilot as a pair programming assistant, AlphaFold to calculate the shape of proteins, and ChatGPT 3.5

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7 Ways To Validate Your Business Idea Before Starting

Startup Professionals Musings

Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach.

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7 Due Diligence Checks On Your Idea To Save Some Pain

Startup Professionals Musings

Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach.

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Six Tips to Make Sure You Aren’t Poaching Intellectual Property Along with Employees

YoungUpstarts

Ultimately, establishing an overall culture of respect for intellectual property is your best defense against information contamination when you are hiring employees away from the competition. But by keeping the situation secret from the victim, you will increase the risk of serious consequences if the facts surface.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is part 2 of Ricardo’s “post mortem” of the life and death of Qualcomm’s corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. Read it first.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas. That works for almost all markets.