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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible.

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7 Concepts To Keep In Mind When Running Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

I also found a wealth of books are available to address the basic facts of business life, like the classic by Bill McBean, aptly named “ The Facts of Business Life ,” based on his forty years running large and small businesses. Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company.

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6 Keys To Funding Based On Your Marketplace Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Thought leadership position in your market and customer set. I recommend never naming more than three specific ones, and using each of these as representative of a group of competitors. Investors check connections.

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Update on America’s Slipping Global Competitiveness– Implications for Intellectual Property Development of Senate Bill 515

Pascal's View

patent system and broadly impact intellectual property rights in our country. legislation that will transform the U.S.

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6 Keys To Convince Investors Of Your Competitive Edge

Startup Professionals Musings

Secondly, they want to see your competitive analysis of how you stack up to the top players in the space, by name, with quantitative comparisons and customer value. Don’t forget other intellectual property, including trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and your expert publications.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. Their leadership has shown incredible foresight in engineering an amazing economic engine and formidable military.

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7 Facts Of Business Life People Learn From Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

I also found a wealth of books are available to address the basic facts of business life, like the classic by Bill McBean, aptly named “ The Facts of Business Life ,” based on his forty years running large and small businesses. Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company.