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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. By now we had found a few customers and learned a lot more about the market from them and other prospects.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. Just get out of the building.” Oops,” I said, “you’re right.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. Ceragon’s solutions are deployed by more than 150 service providers and in hundreds of.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

Ideas dont have a lot of value by themselves, they tend not to be unique, and by staying secret a startup gives up the chance to get valuable feedback from prospective customers and partners. Im at a tradeshow in Dallas this week, and we were visited by some very bright people from a stealth-mode startup. on a hosted basis.

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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

ConversionXL

Is the office IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of your affiliates filtered out (agencies, freelancers, etc.)? Is your home IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of remote employees filtered out? Missing manual tags in emails and newsletters & RSS, social, Google products, Google News.

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5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers

nickpoint.co.uk

All projects should have a job specification/scope in place including project timescales, a payment schedule and copy write/IP transference. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

From a tax reporting standpoint, there is a clear favorite when it comes to incorporation dates, and that’s January 1. Legal Protection And then lastly, you might feel you need the legal protection of your own personal assets from any liability owed by the company, sooner rather than later.

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