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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. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

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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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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.&#. Your name has come up a lot in that regard. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups.

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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. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Geography (i.e. Or do they satisfy a range of potential intents? The lesson?

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

To make a living (defined as $100K a year), former Wired editor Kevin Kelly suggests, you only need 1,000 true fans that will each buy products from you for $100 a year. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. 1000 Superfans or 100 True fans? ” Eric Feng.

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

When I negotiated crowdSPRING’s initial contract for internet and IP phone service, we had a few important deal terms (price, reliability, redundancy) and I made those terms very clear in the beginning. You can learn more in his e-book.

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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. One is the closing innovation window.