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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Traffic Acquisition Strategy: A Data-Driven Approach to Increase Site Traffic

ConversionXL

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Acquisition focuses on how to grab attention in a very crowded content environment. This feedback can improve your acquisition strategies , your value proposition , and your processes on every level.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Gust

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. But the 2013 Snowden revelations damaged that tenuous relationship yet again.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

This is in addition to their 2019 acquisition of Anchor, LinkedIn launched a new ‘Creator Mode’ and is experimenting with social audio – “We’re doing some early tests to create a unique audio experience connected to your professional identity. Mumble – the first wide spread free and open source software for VoIP.

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10 Startups That Changed The Narrative In 2013

ReadWriteStart

That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right. 2013 showed us new hardware built by smaller companies for what seems like the first time in a long time. Hack stars making app development and learning to code easier are abundant.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Acquisition. As InVision App’s marketing manager Sophia Eng explains: “It is rare for a large company at a late stage or an enterprise software company to be doing growth marketing with all of the channels at top peak performance. When Slack opened its private beta in 2013, it did so with 8,000 people ready to try it.

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