Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts. Ask domain experts to quantify value for you.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 120

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

What entrepreneur looking to hit it big isn’t searching for that next “patentable” idea? The costs associated with patenting your technological or creative boon, successfully bringing your product to market and compelling larger companies to come to the table and negotiate a royalty deal rests in how you proceed.

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Intellectual Property Forecast LLC Acquisition 157

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. It’s also a nice touch to customize the site with search boxes for recreational products and medical products, respectively, as well as for indicas, sativas, and hybrids. Personnel plan : Costs of employees.

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Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Software Review 154

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. For example they can reduce component cost, introduce a line extension or create new versions of the existing product. So how does a company act like a startup in search of new business models while still continuing to successfully execute?

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 329

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But why not learn as well from the mistakes of others, without suffering their cost, time, and pain? Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space.

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Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 251

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But why not learn as well from the mistakes of others, without suffering their cost, time, and pain? Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral Early Stage 274

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Channel Cost = $350-400,000 per sales team. A lean rollout for a startup would be 4-5 sales people plus 2-3 clinical applications specialists at a cost of ~$2.5 Expect little or no revenue for 2- 3 quarters after they start.

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Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 231

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Personal credit ratings and collateral are also important.

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This will keep financial and legal liabilities away from your personal assets, but won’t cost you the big initial cost and ongoing time and fees of a C-corporation. Create and register intellectual property online. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing. Building the prototype can be fun.

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Intellectual Property LLC Social Media China 120

Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

But why not learn as well from the mistakes of others, without suffering their cost, time, and pain? Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space.

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Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 183

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Investors are wary of startups with no intellectual property, even with a first-mover advantage. It costs very little to file a provisional patent to begin your protection. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Find existing cases to validate your numbers.

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Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Angel Investor Reputation 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Assign real value to intellectual property. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The SBA’s database lets you search for licensing requirements by state and business type. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. That means you need to prepare for the ups and downs of inconsistent revenue. marketing and advertising costs.

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Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Students typically use internship search sites like AngelList, Internships.com, and Experience.com; Yale uses an internal job board powered by Symplicity. This would cost almost nothing to organize, just one staff person’s time to coordinate.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

By vetting I mean conducting a thorough trademark search before you invest large sums of money in the name of your business, product or thingamabob. Here’s how to avoid it: Be sure to conduct a thorough trademark search before you commit to a new brand name for your business or one of your products.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Naming Finance 78

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Assign real value to intellectual property. Particularly valuable are recurring revenues, like subscription amounts, that don’t have to be resold every period. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

In addition, they demoed to the paper management research group at the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange project (a joint project between the Stanford Law School and Computer Science department to help computers understand copyright and create a marketplace for content). Veritas D.C. Getting Out of the Building.

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Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 237

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it. Apparently, Like.com had a patent ( ‘610 patent ) issued about two months before in the broad area of using computer vision for product search. Arlo and AJ had devised a way to use shape and color as the two axes that helped to discover soft goods.

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Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Newco, Inc.”)

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Patent strategies are a series of steps that a company takes in order to secure and position its inventions, innovations, and/or intellectual property. The patent identifies as “selecting either the greatest magnitude or higher frequency search.” Proper alignment between the patent portfolio and revenue is financially savvy.

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Technical Review Portfolio Startup Intellectual Property 88

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve.

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Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. Using licensees is an excellent way to boost your revenue without the need to hire and external sales force. Growing your business will cost you money. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. Finding Funding for Your Growth.

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LBO Merger Social Media Startup 67

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Up and Running

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Consider that the average startup cost of a new business is about $10,000. It might be adding to the team, refocusing your market, beefing up intellectual property protection, validating your business with early sales, or something else. Narrow your search down to investors more likely to be interested.

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Bootstrapping Intellectual Property Venture Capital Angel Investor 92

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

People looking to start a real estate business often ask: How much does it cost to open a real estate business? The SBA’s database lets you search for licensing requirements by state and business type. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents.

Business Plan 79

Business Plan Limited Liability Company Small Business Sales 79

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. A 354 percent increase in abuse-related issues like spamming, followed by a 245 percent increase in legal costs dealing people trying to game the system.&# Where was this info when I needed it?

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Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

After years of dramatic growth in the 70-80 percent range, online dating revenues have leveled off in the U.S., Entry cost is very high. Intellectual property is tough. Sophisticated search engines. How about the next generation search engine, answering the question, “Who is my ultimate soul mate?”

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Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 229

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

After years of dramatic growth in the 70-80 percent range, online dating revenues have leveled off in the US, according to a recent study. Entry cost is very high. Intellectual property is tough. Social networks and search engines. Subscriber numbers are actually falling slightly. The honeymoon is over.

Intellectual Property 124

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 124

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Use Google and search for “ruby&# or “python&# of “php&# and “meetup&# or “interest group&# or “user group&# and your city (or the nearest big metro area or technology center). You’re asking someone to take a chance that with the code they deliver you can get funding or gain some revenue traction.

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Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. It costs you a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other (as well as ask one if the other is being out of line) is invaluable. The lower your costs, the moreoptions you have—not just at this stage, but at every point tillyoure profitable.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

The High Cost of Free. While many of our digital services (like Facebook and Google) are free, they come with real costs. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. There’s always a value exchange of some sort.

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79