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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee.

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Don’t let your crowdfunding campaign spoil your IP position

NZ Entrepreneur

Protecting the potential value of an innovation with the right forms of intellectual property (IP) can be mission critical. An entrepreneur looking to crowdfund a new initiative must consider and secure their IP position prior to launching the funding campaign. I think I might have some IP, what do I do next? Trademarks.

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How Investors Can Bring More Than Just Money To The Table

YoungUpstarts

Investing in startups is a lot more than just buying “stock” in a company. However, if a company is not going so well is there any way you can help engineer an acquihire or potentially sell off some of the company’s IP on the way out. by Paul Towers, founder & CEO of Task Pigeon. But that doesn’t always have to be the case.

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Small Businesses Must Make Data Privacy a Priority

Duct Tape Marketing

Target not only spent $240 million to replace customers’ cards, but sales and the company’s stock price took a major hit from the resulting public fallout. Cloud-based Tripwire SecureScan provides free vulnerability scanning for up to 100 Internet protocol (IP) addresses on an internal network.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. I was loyal to this group of people and still am.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. But maybe.Net, too, has the potential to grow beyond itself and beyond the reputation of its coders. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. UCL has built a reputation as a pioneer of collaboration between industry and academia. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. London Stock Exchange. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. eway direct.