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Merger and Acquisition Due Diligence Checklist

The Startup Magazine

This may include things like contingent liabilities , litigation risks, intellectual property-related issues, as well as problematic contracts. Technology and Intellectual Property. As a buyer, you should be interested in the company’s technology in addition to its intellectual property. Material Contracts.

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Tips For Protecting Intellectual Property

YoungUpstarts

It is important to take steps to protect your intellectual property. A simple way to protect your intellectual property is the hold off on filing a patent. Once a patent is filed, others can create similar products using workarounds without violating any intellectual property rights. Open-Source IP.

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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. Patents are counter to open source initiatives and free software. Rather than protection, this can be seen as a tax on innovation.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. 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. Lessons Learned.

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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. But working harder is not, in fact, smarter.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Now is the time to catch the wave and just do it yourself.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. These also open new concerns about lost intellectual property, Internet scams, and long-term return on investment.