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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide aspiring entrepreneurs a perspective into all aspects of starting a new company. The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ?

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. A big piece of the solution lies in the scalable impact of entrepreneurship and an increase of successful entrepreneurs. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued.

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

Not every entrepreneur or business owner is comfortable negotiating. Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. Many dread the adversarial nature of negotiation.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. It also creates a common language and metrics that investors, corporate innovation groups and entrepreneurs can share. Diagnostics.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

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