Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

Technical Review 436

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

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Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Registered patents and other intellectual property. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Early Stage Venture Capital 316

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Intellectual Property, the core of the business, is not protected. Your intellectual property is the backbone of your business. Therefore, protecting your intellectual property by filing trademark, copyright and patent applications is essential to ensure that you have legal recourse if infringement occurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology. Even a non-profit needs income to operate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. Build a following and start a brand through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep. Practice being a good communicator.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2020

New technologies come to the fore all the time, so it’s easy to get left behind by more proactive competitors who take the time and effort to keep up. This has the potential to leave you losing customers and business revenue to your more prepared counterparts that have adopted the essential new technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Register some intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep. Practice being a good communicator.

Intellectual Property 436

Intellectual Property Social Media Business Model Employee 436

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

We're better at SEO and social media. Social media and SEO is ever-changing quicksand. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. There's too much energy, availability, intelligence and opportunity in the world to hide behind outdated notions of intellectual property.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2020

As Canada’s market continues to expand, exposure and endless opportunities will be open to investors in financial services, digital media, renewable energy, and lots more. Canada also boasts of strong industries that are globally recognized for their advanced knowledge and applications of modern technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Registered patents and other intellectual property. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

Taking appropriate action for intellectual property protection. Many startups are created based on a unique product, technology or service. Failing to take appropriate steps to protect your intellectual property can leave you vulnerable and without any legal standing should another business take your unique idea.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Content marketing, social media, and email campaigns can be cost-effective ways to engage your audience and build brand awareness. It’s crucial to protect your intellectual property as well, including trademarks, patents, and copyrights. Stay abreast of technological advancements and assess their applicability to your venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. 5 years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

The more potentially disruptive your technology, the more important it is that this message be quick, simple, and quantified. Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

intellectual properties or proprietary technologies) are giving you a competitive advantage, what makes your brand attractive to its target audience, and what tangible or intangible attributes are elevating your reputation in the marketplace. Emerging markets or new methods of delivering your products or services (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The more potentially disruptive your technology, the more important it is that this message be quick, simple, and quantified. Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Startup Algorithm 416

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 22, 2020

The overwhelming majority of security breaches your company will face will come through technological means, often through intellectual property theft, data collection or attacks intended to shut down your operations. All of this can make a difference, as online threats are complex and often multi-faceted.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2024

A lot of the world of work is based around text: documents, email, content, media. Progress in generative AI technologies for video has also be moving very fast, but it’s generally less talked about than text and images, which already have products with wide consumer adoption. Visual generative AI made strides as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Investors are looking for technology, process, or business model breakthroughs, to move costs to a new level. Your solution is just the beginning, not the only solution. This approach is not convincing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! All social media experts “are actually the same person,&# Wikileaks documents reveal – [link]. Boxee CEO To Big Media: “Resistance Is Futile&# – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

The simple solution I recommend to inventors is to find a partner who can focus on business and marketing, while you focus on technology. Here are some of the key entrepreneur characteristics most often overlooked by inventors: Driven by customer-centric view of needs, rather than technology.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice.

China 218

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 218

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

Partner 310

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 310

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Not only do enterprise-level businesses need to protect their intellectual property, but they must also protect physical assets. The best way to do this is to utilize technology such as enterprise security cameras and IT infrastructure to keep sensitive data away from hackers. Register Intellectual Property.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2011

Don’t ignore technology. Technology is moving incredibly fast. What may have been at the cutting edge of technology five years ago is now obsolete. Blockbuster pretty much led the rental media industry for a couple of decades and now its stores are near extinction. Don’t underestimate your competition.

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