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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Instead, they search and pivot until product-market fit is found. Corporate studios , such as Applied Materials , source ideas and intellectual property inside their own company.

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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. The four types of intellectual property are trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and patents. Trademarks are an easily recognizable form of intellectual property.

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5 Ways To Manage Intellectual Property For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP) is a primary business component for many entrepreneurs. However, intellectual property differs from other company assets in the way that it is not tangible. Since it is not a piece of physical property, many entrepreneurs neglect to realize its value. Conduct A Trademark Search.

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7 Ways To Validate Your Business Idea Before Starting

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another.

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What intellectual property (IP) steps should a startup take?

NZ Entrepreneur

Within the space of three hours of searching the US patent office database, I found a show-stopper patent owned by a US company. The post What intellectual property (IP) steps should a startup take? They had been running their very successful business in New Zealand for 10 years. Anton Blijlevens is a Partner at AJ Park.

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7 Due Diligence Checks On Your Idea To Save Some Pain

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another.

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Common Intellectual Property mistakes made by startups

NZ Entrepreneur

This article is the third of a three-part series by Baldwins Intellectual Property that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. What is intellectual property? Intellectual property is about creations of the mind.