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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. You will still need to do an online search to make sure you’re not infringing on someone else’s idea. Patent Search. A benefit statement.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust. Thus, our pitch framed LinkedIn as a platform for finding the people you need, which we called “professional people search 2.0″, Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0”