Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Social media accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. Build a prototype and experiment with real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Not everything will work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

In fact, you can get far beyond that number if you take advantage of the tools, process, and technology out there today, such as social media, text messaging, email, customer relationship systems (CRM), and discipline yourself to prioritize relationship building. That’s more than enough to put you ahead of your competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

He shares his insights from three decades in business, growing billion-dollar portfolios, and managing thousands of people. Think of the popularity and power of social media – the average daily usage worldwide is now up to 136 minutes per day. Logic may set the stage but it is emotion that wins the day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Social media accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

He shares his insights from three decades in business, growing billion-dollar portfolios, and managing thousands of people. Think of the popularity and power of social media – the average daily usage worldwide is now up to 135 minutes per day. Logic may set the stage but it is emotion that wins the day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Not everything will work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Not everything will work.

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Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud 251

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Not everything will work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Social media accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Social media accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Social media accounts. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. Still, it is recommended that you add the familiar ©Copyright 2010 symbol at the beginning or end of each media and document segment. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents.

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