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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level.

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP. Cost: $40.00, Open only to members of HBS Angels of Greater New York.

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Every time OpenAI cuts a check for training data, an unlaunched competitive startup dies. Without a ‘safe harbor,’ AI will be ruled by incumbents.

Hunter Walker

If Google, OpenAI, and other large tech companies can establish a high enough cost, they implicitly prevent future competition. Model efficacy is roughly [ technical IP/approach ] * [ training data ] * [ training frequency/feedback loop ]. And some sort of transparency statistics on these issues in aggregate. Not very Open.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. Geography (i.e. The lesson?

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

After we successfully negotiated that price, our future landlord surprised us with “other” costs and fees that added substantially to the per square foot price that we would be paying. I also explained that we weren’t concerned with what each itemized item cost – but we needed to make sure that in the aggregate, we didn’t exceed our budget.

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