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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. 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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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. 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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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

“After reading your post on Why Founders Should Know How to Code it looks like web/mobile startups have it easy. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Copyright intellectual property protection is already given automatically and immediately without the need to register the copyright with a government.

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Consistent Revenue Growth At Core Of Google’s Mobile Advertising Strategy: TBR

YoungUpstarts

Google is focused on expanding its already broad reach into the advertising market by increasing the span and coverage of its digital and mobile platforms, and the company’s 4Q14 results highlight how the company’s efforts to buttress its core services is paying off: Google’s revenue and gross profit climbed 15.3%

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas. I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware. That works for almost all markets.