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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question. Each of these categories is a deep subject that can be explored in a future post.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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For early stage companies, it’s important to show that you’re on path, that you have prospects, and that you can get to your vision. In our third example, we contrasted Altavista and its search algorithm versus Google and its search algorithm PageRank. But even at this stage, lead with your overall investment thesis.