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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Are there user stories? If you launched tomorrow, how many users would you forecast? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to register? Is there a leaderboard for users or teams?

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. Just about anything can be patented : circuits, hardware, software, applied algorithms, formulas, designs, user interfaces, applications, systems. What is Protectable. _.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Snap’s revenue is a function of two numbers: number of users, and average revenue per user (ARPU). User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. years to grow its user base 4x.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. Brian Dean: Actually, over the last year we increased our organic traffic by like 80% just by going back to old content and totally changing it for user intent.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

This isnt trivial - believing in the projections and selling your passion and networking to find investors are all really hard. If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. This is utter bullshit.

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How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

This is going to be BIG.

Should the Warhol foundation, owners of Andy Warhol’s IP be paid out if you decide to “paint” a bottle of Scope in the AI-trained style of his Campbell’s Soup Can? As it is, we know that curated social networks like Instagram can have negative affects on self image. Will AI only make it worse? These are not my forearms.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

What Google’s Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Google changes its algorithm about 500 times a year.