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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. I mean, it’s easy to talk to very little bands and just say I feel like the amount of revenue for you is very little. Gelie: That’s not the only revenue stream.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

Occam's Razor

Do this at the very minimum for the 20% of the campaign that are responsible for 80% of your traffic / revenue. A smaller problem for normal sites with just text and some images, but a huge problem for fat ugly flash heavy websites (especially the, still annoying, ones with flash intros).

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Performance-based deals are healthy for all parties. link] Steve Wevick.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Once you’ve done that – then. 5% I believe.