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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

Many companies need venture capital funding, including startups. It is a type of financing that investors can provide to startups and small businesses which are believed to have the potential for success in the long term. They may be interested in consumer products, software, fintech, AI, or green technologies.

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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

Try creating a food delivery service if you've been considering a startup but don't have the capital to do so. 7- Making and selling website themes Photo Credit: Sean Stevens If you know how to code, especially front-end development, you can use your skills to make money by making and selling website themes online. #8-

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Tech startups are at the other extreme. The gulf has widened with the proliferation of social Internet / user-generated content and mobile application startups. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Four Benefits Of The Well Architected Framework In Cloud Applications

The Startup Magazine

Much of this section will be governed by what business processes and functions you need your application to perform. Optimizing efficiency can be neatly summed up in four steps: selection, review, monitoring, and trade offs. Make small, reversible changes in the code so that the process of debugging can be simplified.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. We're going to get reviews on blogs.". Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. Cue sound of cicadas buzzing. (Or

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

Steve Blank

That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Outside the U.S. Intellectual Property.