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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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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. Customers and Sales.

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10 Tips For A New Venture To Survive The Early Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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10 Financing Alternatives For Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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