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What I’ve learned from seeing 20k company pitches

Hippoland

If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development.

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Common Intellectual Property mistakes made by startups

NZ Entrepreneur

As soon as you have a business or product idea and you’ve spent some time planning what this may look like in reality, start looking into intellectual property protection. For example, you can begin by performing your own searches of existing intellectual property owned by third parties.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures. Wildfire Interactive.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process.

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How much of my business do I have to give to an investor?

Berkonomics

If there is no record of revenues, see the “The Berkus Method” available with any search query for valuing the business before revenues. If you are a going business with a track record of revenues, then the importance of accurate current financial statements cannot be overstated.

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How Do You Know If a Startup Accelerator Is Right For Your Company?

Up and Running

To thrust our venture forward, gain business skills quickly, and increase our chances of raising capital, we searched for an accelerator program. Accelerators focus on early-stage startups, while incubators are geared toward later-stage startups. Accelators.

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Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program

Startup Lessons Learned

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend.

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