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6 Costly Employment Contract Mistakes To Avoid

YoungUpstarts

When you hire others to work for you, employment contracts are vital to outlining what is expected of employees, the terms of their employment, company policies, ownership of intellectual property, and certain financial agreements. Not Differentiating Between Employment Contracts and Employment Policies.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition? The simple fact is that all businesses have competition.

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Investors Look for These Six Competitive Elements

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. Many markets, like government contracts, are especially costly and time consuming to penetrate, but if your team already has these connections, you have an immediate head start, and past leadership success suggests you can sustain the lead. Strong focus and differentiation.

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6 Key Drivers To a Long-Term Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. Many markets, like government contracts, are especially costly and time consuming to penetrate, but if your team already has these connections, you have an immediate head start, and past leadership success suggests you can sustain the lead. Strong focus and differentiation.

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6 Keys To Convince Investors Of Your Competitive Edge

Startup Professionals Musings

There are a myriad of other important ways that you can demonstrate your competitive advantages in your presentations, discussions, and business plan, including the following: Highlight your intellectual property. Present a clear differentiation and a laser market focus. Promote any inside relationships or customer base.

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How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Complete Guide (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Consider branding yourself as an expert in real estate, personal injury, family law, intellectual property, or even admiralty law. How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? There are many areas to choose from to give your practice a chance to stand out.

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Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation

Duct Tape Marketing

Rodney highlights the significance of selecting the right areas for transformation that can deliver a differentiating value, plus the importance of upskilling and reskilling existing talent within digital changes. It's something we have to invest in, but it's not, uh, competitively differentiating. And we wanna see the world do better.