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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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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

While working on a musical about math – an item on my life bucket list-I needed a name for the producing organization. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Packaged food and beverages were marketed as natural and safe, filled with secret ingredients (sometimes dangerous) were developed by the manufacturers, so they could sell more and keep it shelf stable for longer. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen.

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Flesh your chosen voice Develop simple guidelines. When at Ikea and picking up your yellow shopping bag, there’s a bunch of items that have a low price (candles, napkins, etc.) If [bad thing] happens, track [bad thing] Tracking out of stock items. Understand where you are at now.) Clarify your brand message. Lazy load images.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. Most of the items had been bought for the novelty value, anyway. I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. my Developer Tokens already answer the question for me.

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