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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. Not surprisingly, the best way to avoid IP litigation is to prepare for IP litigation, and the only way to prepare is to know the rules. from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2018.

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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

If you can check these boxes and convince venture capitalists that you’ve achieved product fit in a market with plenty of room for growth, you have a real shot at securing funding. The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers.

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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

We also saw it when production line labour was replaced with robotics. Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Reduce prices and sell more.

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Acquihires 101: Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

We had a busy 2018, including closing several significant M&A transactions and financings. An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). Accordingly, the deal may be a mere fiction designed to get funds into the startup to be distributed to its investors.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation.

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

Recently, the company laid out expectations for 40% e-commerce growth in 2018 (fiscal year 2019). Walmart’s most recent acquisition of Parcel , though small financially, indicated interest in more quickly delivering products from stores to homes. Improve delivery and in-store pickup options, especially for grocery.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

But I think we can all agree we’ve got a bit of a problem with friends, followers, fans, likes and especially free products. We could take the product home and test it in the lab. trillion in 2018, which means that these 5 technology firms are collectively valued at 19% of the entire US economy. trillion as at 6/6/19.