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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Tech startups are at the other extreme. Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

I had taken the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings. Why Do You Work Here? Mission Intent – What’s Really Important.

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