YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Building a business isn’t just about making a profit. My company is an intellectual property holding company, but it ultimately aims to accelerate and regulate the utilization of regenerative technology. A business can target a purpose beyond profit, even if the end result isn’t about saving the world.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? So I obsess about ways to iterate and make it better.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2019

Census Bureau , about 90 percent of American businesses are family-owned or -controlled and account for half of the nation’s employment. While many people cite the adage about separating business and personal matters, family businesses benefit from the linking the two. According to the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are no shortages of causes to get involved in, but finding one you are truly passionate about and that aligns with your business can take a little introspection. The Bridgespan Group defines investment pilots as a way of exploring areas you care about while generating results by deliberately selecting grantees in a related space.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

Still, there are hindrances to the overall development of the ecosystem, including under-developed infrastructure, limitations of the education system, lack of protection for intellectual property, all of which found their place within JP’s analysis of the problem.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

About Matt. Also, it’s easier to monitor someone’s working hours vs. what I was talking about, which is really milestone based vesting. About Matt. California companies can have specific salary arrangements with salaried employees. Intellectual Property. A View from the Valley. Blog blog archive.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intellectual Property. Service companies are increasingly looking to get into work-for-equity relationships," says Peter Wendell , managing director of the Menlo Park , California -based venture capital firm Sierra Ventures and a faculty member at Stanford Business School. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 20, 2012

I will have to learn more, but here is the one line pitch — uber successful California biotech researcher Richard Miller is lured to Texas to lead the way as the first commercialization chief, but quickly runs into conflict of interest issues for being too entrepreneurial! From Kirk Ladendorf at the Austin Statesman.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Each week, as the students learned something new about their particular project (what sales channel they should use, who the customer were, what type of manufacturing was appropriate, etc.) Business Development – What type of partnership or whole product is needed?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. Orin : …The rap on tech transfer used to be that it was about picking the winners.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. You are writing about the essentials of business. And how it relates to what you are talking about in [link] ? That's great. Yes, a physical folder.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

 I find this to be a compelling insight about the investing process that has a lot of implications for the way most angels think about their decision making process.  "   It's interesting to think about the typical selection process for angel investments.   You can think of this a couple of ways. 

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? I know it sounds crazy because you’re talking about friends or colleagues here. Not worth it.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

On the heels of ReadWriteWeb's glowing article about the NYC tech startup scene and Open Angel Forum coming to NYC , Ms. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. grants and navigate intellectual property rules.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno. The three of us spoke about the role of technology in empowering people, spreading its benefits to historically underserved communities, our currently broken employment system and why they believe it can be fixed, and more.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Just as people may complain about online platforms they use, leaving the platform would represent such a significant loss in other value that they stay, even if there are things they may not like about it. has been down about 10% over the past 15 years. Why should we care about any of this? The same applies to cities.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If you’re writing a Lean Plan, keep it shorter and think about making it easy to revisit and revise often. For example, if your box service will be cheaper than others in your niche, talk about your business model and how you’ll keep your box more affordable. In the beginning, your SOM is the most important number to think about.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? Surely, among the tens of thousands of effective and honest consultants running about, a significant number of them are well positioned to help startups – right? One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules. infoChachkie. I suppose so, but I haven’t ever seen it.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Moonlighting problem – if you work on your startup while currently employed by another company, your employer may have rights to your intellectual property/invention. in California), but opens a pandora’s box of compliance issues. Two potential problems: (i) the “moonlighting” problem and (ii) the “Zuck” problem.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

i) Rule 506 preempts State law, which means all you have to do is file a Form D and pay a filing fee; and (ii) no disclosure requirement/PPM Possible to sell to “friends and family” (e.g., issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies? (i)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Please leave a comment and lets discuss!

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 19, 2012

The young companies that took the stage Wednesday to kick off the three-day startup fest in Santa Clara, California, demonstrated a surprisingly wide variety of software and Web services. Irvine, California-based e-commerce startup Looqiloo has launched in beta a cloud service that lets people upload videos of product reviews.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. What is it that’s unique about the market I’m in? Just get out of the building.”

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When you add in legal considerations such as assets, debt liability, and intellectual property (IP) protection it becomes clear that you have a lot to think about before making the choice that’s right for you. The Most Common Business Entity Forms. Sole Proprietorship. General Partnership.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Getting outside opinions on some of these can be helpful – don’t be afraid to ask someone you trust what they think about your answers to the following: What skills set me apart? Income properties (homes purchased to generate income through rental or leasing). Commercially zoned properties. Property management.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Or separately the State of California? That’s even more serious for today’s gig workers in California being attacked by the government requiring them to be reclassified as employees. How about a contractor CEO? California’s “ABC Test” for gig employees. How about founders? The newest IRS test. This one is tricky.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2017

Black N Bianco , a formal wear shop for children based in El Monte, California, has established their website as their entry point. It’s not about creating the ‘wow’ factor as much as it is about understanding your customers and their needs.”. Learn more about how Spark Business products can help you do business digitally.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You can find them at zephyrcms.com, more about this later in the show. We’re going to talk about legal stuff today. We’re not going to talk about marketing, but sometimes these things intersect. We’re not going to talk about marketing, but sometimes these things intersect. This is John Jantsch.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And thats kind of exciting, when you think about it, because allthree are doable. If there is one message Id like to get across about startups,thats it. They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8 Google had earlier bought LabPixies in April for about $25 million. billion, of which $2.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why We Love to Hate HR…and What HR Can Do About It [link] crowdspring.co/1LyHlna Things You Didn’t Know About M.C. 1LyHlna .

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Off the top of my head, one of them was about some online scrap book storage, and another was an online video startup.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I wanted to ask you what you thought about “context&# ? What about emerging economies, what caveats do they posses ? I hewar via thew grapevine that you’re thinking about a ‘Business Model Competition’ Interesting. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

About VC Cafe. Everything you needed to find information about startups. s talk about tools and libraries that help you implement your Ideas faster: Tokbox : Thatâ??s No need to worry about security and such. Ryan Bates create screencast for just about everything you might want to do with a rails app. Try Leaflet.

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