Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. So What Does this Have to Do With A Founding Team?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Recently, Ive seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Easier-to-use’ and other fuzzy terms won’t get any attention.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 436

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. I’m proud to contribute to the effort and always enjoy reading what the other authors have to say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property. These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Easier-to-use’ and other fuzzy terms won’t get any attention.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2011

Key believes in passive income generation – renting your idea to others so you don’t have to bother about manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution, but instead sit back and collect royalty checks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

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. Copyright intellectual property protection is already given automatically and immediately without the need to register the copyright with a government.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about bringing the work back home, since costs have gone up in less-developed countries, there are issues with intellectual property, and time zone and language differences make management difficult. Keep intellectual property keys in-house.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 120

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Important intellectual property and data of high value will be classified differently from press releases as an example. Due to the importance of the intellectual property access will be restricted, or at least should be, to the fewest possible employees.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? Protect your company’s customers, employees and intellectual property. A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. Think about your employee and ownership hats.

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Partner Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 208

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Unfortunately, I see good startups fail simply because they don’t have the resources or intellectual property to stay ahead of copycats or big players who see the potential as soon as you step into the marketplace. Make sure your solution is defensible and unique. Implement a strategy for growth and improvement.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2020

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. The four types of intellectual property are trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and patents. Trademarks are an easily recognizable form of intellectual property.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Despite its recent financial crisis, the WIPO cites Cyprus as a country showing great potential in intellectual property and technology output.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. Good product and intellectual property are important, but the quality of the team is key. Strength of the Product and Intellectual Property. — Easily copied, no intellectual property. million to a high of $3.4 million for pre-revenue companies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

For many entrepreneurs and inventors, mass producing and distributing products simply doesn’t play to their strengths. These involve finding funding and getting up to speed quickly on the highly complex manufacturing and distribution processes. Technical data and training needed for development, manufacturing and distribution.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2011

Under the 1976 Copyright Act (United States), the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. may be the only country in the western world not to recognize intellectual property rights in typeface design. For example, the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Overcome intellectual property concerns. Overcome intellectual property concerns. Under the 1976 Copyright Act (United States), the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. Master work overflow. We just emailed the tips to you.

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Intellectual Property Design Marketing Software Review 108

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand.

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Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Diagnostics. Week 3 Todd Morrill Instructor .

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. But, if you have intellectual property that is proprietary to your business and helps your business defend itself against competitors, you should detail that information here. Distribution. Retail Distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Easier-to-use’ and other fuzzy terms won’t get any attention.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Easier-to-use’ and other fuzzy terms won’t get any attention.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

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Partner Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete 434

David Cohen

JANUARY 4, 2012

Microsoft will not retain intellectual property or equity in any of the participating companies but will provide provisioned Xbox development kits, Kinect hardware, the Kinect for Windows SDK and space for testing and developing during the program. Some of the mentors include: Myself, Founder/CEO, TechStars.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Coley Brown, of VisionMine, said that open innovation helps some smaller companies get acquired, while others have their technology licensed by the larger firms they work with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. This includes personal and team commitments to delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing, and distribution requirements. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation.

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Intellectual Property Social Network Metrics .Net 360

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. This includes personal and team commitments to delivery schedules, quality assurance, manufacturing, and distribution requirements. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation.

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Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. That is what we’re all about at KISSPatent, making intellectual property seamless and effortless for our clients to obtain. And I was right. Thanks to Jody Grunden, Summit CPA Group ! #12-

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