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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. So first a short list of some key definitions. Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.).

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For IP Security at Startups, "Later" Isn't Soon Enough

ReadWriteStart

Those are the first three items on every tech startup's checklist (more or less). Much farther down the list - if it's there at all - is the security plan the startup needs to protect its brilliant idea from theft. Most startups take the obvious measures: Be careful who you hire. A great team to work on it. And many more.

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Five signs it’s time to get your business organized

www.greenhornconnect.com

” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. So the short answer is: the sooner the better; but here are five telltale signs it’s definitely time to form a company.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

How we came up with the name of our startup (BeeWits) is quite interesting. I wanted Find Me a Gift to be an easy, straight-forward way of buying thoughtful, unique items for friends and family, without the hassle of the high street. We are an EdTech startup that makes interactive toys that you can code – we like to say hack.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”