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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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4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? If you’re just focused on products you’re going to miss the boat. Alignment, Team Diversity, Knowledge & MoshPits.

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Google Enters Hologramland

Feld Thoughts

Following is a brief excerpt from one of the articles floating around about that announcement: “Pichai said “We have developed a breakthrough light field display,” probably with the help of the people and IP it scooped up from Lytro, the light field camera company that didn’t manage to get its own tech off the ground and dissolved 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. Reinvest funds for growth (New Product / Distribution / Promotion / R &D). Monopoly markets and IP protected innovations being rare exceptions). Price when new – 2018 = $35,990 (42% of average annual income)*. Reduce prices and sell more.

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5 Strategies For Business Growth Many People Forget

Startup Professionals Musings

Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Redefine your product to reach a new category.

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. Think about that.