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. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Intellectual property is the most important asset of many start-ups. Here is a summary of the main forms of intellectual property protection in the UK. You apply for a patent to the UK Intellectual Property Office or the European Patents Office (which gives protection throughout the EU). Related articles.

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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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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. In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media. In addition, your company and social media names are key intellectual property. A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property.

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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. It's even true in hardware: Every mp3 player uses zillions of patents, but that didn't stop Apple from winning.

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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]. Ad targeting doesn’t always work. Doing POS?? (9

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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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.

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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. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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. A strong team has more credibility with investors than does a great idea by itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Of course, there are many other common reasons for startup failure, including inexperienced teams, inadequate marketing, no intellectual property, business model doesn’t work, or just giving up too early.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

Taking appropriate action for intellectual property protection. 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. Many startups are created based on a unique product, technology or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. The authors and I predict that the new forces of social structuring and the so-called digital natives (Gen Y and younger) will soon disrupt the traditional transaction model for doing business, as well as the current partnering model. Not everything will work.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Even if you do not have a formal team, your friends, family and even your social media network connections are there as a resource. He is author of “ The Simple Secrets of Intellectual Property “, “ The Simple Secrets of Being an Entrepreneur “, “ The Simple Secrets of Social Media “, and “ The Simple Secrets of Crowdfunding “.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors.

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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. Develop a marketing strategy that leverages both digital and traditional channels.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

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. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? What are the risks and rewards?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Successful entrepreneurs start early building their own brand through social media, industry forums, scheduled events, book publishing, and speaking engagements. Your solution is just the beginning, not the only solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Be extra careful with your intellectual property. They forget about the platform fee -- typically 5 percent -- taxes on pledges, preparation and social media commitment to prepare and execute the campaign, and the give-back required if you don’t meet your goal. Naïve entrepreneurs believe crowdfunding is essentially free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In today’s world of information overload, everyone relies on marketing and social media to find solutions to match their needs. Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. Business people know how to downplay the technology and market the value of the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2013

Passwords are compromised on the job in the same way they are for employees’ personal accounts – often through the use of weak passwords that contain information that is easily available on social media sites, such as birthdays, children’s names, etc. That way, managers can serve as effective advocates for the change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Of course, there are many other common reasons for startup failure, including inexperienced teams, inadequate marketing, no intellectual property, business model doesn’t work, or just giving up too early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. The authors and I predict that the new forces of social structuring and the so-called digital natives (Gen Y and younger) will soon disrupt the traditional transaction model for doing business, as well as the current partnering model. Not everything will work.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies. Inventors follow a structured process to assemble and test solutions, file patents for intellectual property protection, and define production details.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Not only do enterprise-level businesses need to protect their intellectual property, but they must also protect physical assets. Register Intellectual Property. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Furthermore, intellectual property embedded within these spreadsheets — regardless of how protected they are — can get into unintended hands, such as via email or when copying onto a thumb drive. As a result, it’s important to effectively manage and protect your documents, which is where EASA comes into the equation.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Its first, Brooklyn Enterprise on Science and Technology (BEST) helps science and technology companies grow with a student patent program, intellectual property commercialization, help from business advisors, and funding recommendations.

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