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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company). With Opsfleet, the situation was critical as they provide a commodity service (software development) and have signifcant competition. Take the time to score your engagement.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. We hired IP specialists to review prior art.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets. > 14,000 public nodes . >

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5 Legal Requirements to Keep in Mind for Your Small Business Website

Up and Running

The term “personal information” means different things based on each specific law, but it can include name, email address, phone numbers, addresses, and even IP addresses in some cases. . These images may be owned by other sites or may be stock images that are licensed to other businesses.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet).

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