Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. New Rules for China. Entrepreneurial Culture. Fear of Failure.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Do we have an internet connected product/app? Bring awareness to employees with social engineering, training, and positive reinforcement tactics. The complexity of cyber security is increasing as more and more Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being brought online. Do we have store fronts? Do we have offshore developers?

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Security Intellectual Property CTO Hire Offshore 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. New Rules for China. Entrepreneurial Culture. Fear of Failure.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property. Free Speech.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Social Media 73

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Singapore is also at the forefront of protections related to intellectual property, offering security for innovation. Creating location-specific content helps you connect with more potential customers in their preferred language and increases your business’ chance of being discovered by local search engines in Singapore. .

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Singapore Asia Intellectual Property Marketing 147

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. Building the prototype can be fun.

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Intellectual Property LLC Social Media China 120

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

However, thanks to economy of scale, prices for online venture necessities like web hosting and Internet data have dwindled significantly. Remember to also do a trademark search at your country’s intellectual property office, such as USPTO (U.S Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important to any online business.

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Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2013

While it’s true that communities of like-minded people exist both in the real world and online, it’s a rare innovator who’ll be willing to divulge the details of his work, especially in an age when more people than ever play fast and loose with intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Widget Advertising Social Media 149

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. Known for its abundant engineering talent pool, India attracts outsourcing hubs and multinational R&D labs. Its domestic economy expanded by 0.6%

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Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

NB: Notice this “tripwire marketing” is different from the “tripwire offer” popular in internet marketing circles. This automation ultimately creates a marketing machine based on a fair amount of intellectual property (i.e., We engineered incentives for those visitors that took longer than this time to act. Simple, right?

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Bankruptcy Marketing Campaign Intellectual Property 106

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

bigbadstartup.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

There are a variety of “out-of-the-box&# solutions which allow you to create professional looking websites without having to pay an engineer at all. Who owns any Intellectual property rights? Some people are very secretive about their programmers though. What happens if there is a error or delay to the development?

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Intellectual Property Web Development Flash Web 40

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. They later renamed their search engine research project “Google,” and the rest is history.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

After all, despite the strength of these encryption systems, all an attack ultimately requires is usually an ID and/or password—information which can be readily obtained by private individuals through social engineering or carelessness on the part of the user.

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Government Security Intellectual Property Offshore 114

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. Independent Third Parties: This area for securing business loans has witnessed the greatest degree of change, primarily due to removal of communication barriers using the Internet.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

For your eyes only” features are also covered as well as a configurable cryptographic engine for storage. Take intellectual property. What you can and should do is a detailed product search on the Internet to see if anything like your innovation already exists. It’s worth the investment to have a professional do it.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Intellectual Property 133

Ben's Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Ebay might not have owned Skype’s underlying intellectual property. While Skype won the original Internet telephony wars, they did so with a classic fat desktop client. In retrospect, it was easy for people to underestimate the quality of the Skype engineering team and the power of Skype’s network effect.

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IP Intellectual Property Canada Angel Investor 78

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

InnoCentive, an organization based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that uses the Internet to link ‘seekers’ — client companies struggling with pressing scientific or business problems — with ‘solvers’ — more than 250,000 problem-cracking minds around the globe, InnoCentive claims.

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North Carolina Intellectual Property Bangladesh Raleigh 39

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead, I worked as a computer technician and in my free hours, I spent time on the internet looking for new opportunities. I found crowdspring on a search engine. crowdspring also protects intellectual property. I’m a self-taught designer and began designing professionally in 2012. I never planned to be a designer.

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Design Pakistan Intellectual Property Search 48

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. The next big technology investment idea is the “Early Exit.”

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Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

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? It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Not worth it. Pick the founding members.

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Founder Vesting Intellectual Property Stock Options IP 365

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As a result, poor security awareness leaves organizations vulnerable to social engineering and advanced attacks. Careless or uninformed employees unwittingly infect their work computers with malware by clicking on pop-ups, downloading applications from the internet and opening links from unknown sources. A People-centric Strategy.

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Security Intellectual Property Government Technical Review 100