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6 Success Stages Every Entrepreneur Idea Has To Pass

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s really a multi-step process, with the first step getting you from an idea to a viable product, and the remaining steps creating a sustainable business. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Start with what you know, but think outside the box.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

We are in a golden age for productivity apps. There are robust apps available that go beyond the productivity and document features you’d expect. Take a look and see how these 13 powerful organization and productivity tools can empower your small business with easy, accessible design. It’s easy to see why.

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14 Points To Consider When Structuring A Deal

YoungUpstarts

No matter what you do, you want to make sure that in the process that you protect your intellectual property, have non-disclosure agreements in place, if possible non-circumvents. For Leads or Sales consider a Modified Lehman Formula. Hand-off Sales. What is a huge success for me in the terms? White Label.

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How to Write Better B2B Case Studies: 2 Lessons from Psychology

ConversionXL

In fact, 94% of buyers go online to evaluate what their peers say about a product or service before deciding. In my experience, sales teams want case studies, but marketing teams are cynical about the engagement they generate. Research shows that word-of-mouth marketing is directly responsible for 20–50% of sales.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

You can protect business processes, know how, customer information, product road map. If your product is software, copyright is also used to prevent someone from stealing your software and reselling it as machine and/or source code.) A contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law. In the U.S.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry.

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What to consider when entering into product collaboration

NZ Entrepreneur

Product collaborations involve a range of intellectual property (IP) and other commercial issues. Where the collaboration involves one party producing a product that incorporates elements from the other party, the agreement is, at its heart, a licence agreement. What is the product? What IP is being licensed?