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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. Not surprisingly, the best way to avoid IP litigation is to prepare for IP litigation, and the only way to prepare is to know the rules. He earned his J.D.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

acquire a company for the product and its installed base of users. Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing? Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( acquire startups for their teams (and discard the product).

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Knox was relentless about understanding whether their device was a business or whether it was technology in search of a market. Knox was a great example of having a technology in search of a customer. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it. They learned a ton.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

But is personalization really the key to a better user experience? The hypothesis is that the more personalized the site / user experience, the more likely visitors are to convert. Customization is the visitor’s conscious decision to alert the user experience. One thing Netflix could do to improve the user experience (vs.

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This Is How to Optimize Your Business Blog: 14 Powerful WordPress Plugins

Up and Running

With that in mind, here are the WordPress plugins you can use to fully optimize your blog for user experience and lead generation. Use insights about visitor page views, geographic location, search history, demographic information, and referrals to analyze and strategize. Enhance your interaction with visitors. UserNoise.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

and search for its availability as a corporate name, domain name and trademark (all separate inquiries). Strategic partnership or distribution agreements. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., Newco, Inc.”)