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Small Business Guide To Protecting Data From Disasters

YoungUpstarts

Their intellectual property that details their new product or service is exceedingly valuable and warrants the utmost in protection. And during this span, storage options such as the cloud have become much more accessible, secure, and affordable. Workers can function remotely and still pull the data they need to get things done.

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Venture Debt 101

Up and Running

This sometimes even includes your IP assets, though this is negotiable and should be part of your decision on the lender you choose to work with. Finally, while the amount can vary based on the lender, you will have to cover the legal fees associated with securing the financing.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. Early mistakes, especially on securities matters, can complicate or even thwart exits some years down the road.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

Consummate the stock issuances, make any necessary securities filings and issue the corresponding stock certificates. Make escrow arrangements for restricted stock (i.e., founders’ shares subject to vesting) and IRS filings for most favorable tax treatment of those shares. Caveat entrepreneur !

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. Strategic ABM: High stakes, highly customized one-to-one marketing typically used to expand existing customer accounts and secure bigger deals. Because of this, even a small deal may warrant a one-to-one marketing approach.

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Critical Patent Strategies Startups Can Use From Large Companies

Up and Running

Patent strategies are a series of steps that a company takes in order to secure and position its inventions, innovations, and/or intellectual property. Securing the essential European hubs, (i.e., Offering in-house counsel equity is an affordable and practical workaround to secure in-house counsel on a limited budget.

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

blog.expensify.com

I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. 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. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with.

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