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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. The culture in a startup is also about moving fast, making informed guesses, learning when things go wrong (which they often will), and iterating and reiterating the design of the product or service until you get it right. Risk and reward.

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Do It Right The First Time: Avoiding “Janitorial” Legal Work

Gust

In most cases, the answers are (1) an outstanding product or technology; (2) a successful growth business built around that product; and (3) a top-notch team to build and execute the business. In Part II, we’ll get into certificates of incorporation, stock purchase agreements, IP assignments and related matters. Good stuff!

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4 Different Lawyers That Entrepreneurs Need

The Startup Magazine

As you are forming your new business, creating new products and hiring new employees as your company grows developing new materials, you will encounter scenarios where you need to create, review, and sign contracts. Contract Lawyer. Therefore, it’s often a good idea to hire a contract lawyer to have on retainer.

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Start-up Tips: Identifying Intellectual Property, Simplified

YoungUpstarts

I’ve attended many IP seminars and conferences conducted specifically for businesses and they are generally always about Patents. They can be words, phrases, slogans, labels, logos, colour combinations, packaging of products, sounds and pretty much any graphical representation that helps consumers identify you, your product or your service.

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What to do About that Chip on Your Shoulder?

Both Sides of the Table

I guess my thoughts are that if you’re part of the country club you have a vested interest in protecting the existing order and that disruption happens more from those that are on the outside wanting to change the rules. I am a product of one so maybe there’s resonance there. I have always felt this way.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

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Dear elizy: How should I split equity with my co-founders?  And how will that affect raising a seed round?

Hippoland

Ada is my professor, and we are using her lab, and the company is based on her research, though the IP is assigned to the company. You have to productize the research, build partnerships, sell to customers, etc – presumably none of which you have done pre-incorporation. Let’s call them Ada and Bob.