Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. This patent holding company has charged infringement and demanded royalties from every app developer for the iPhone and Android, for a feature most agree has been in apps for many years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2021

Yet despite this fact, these domains – the.com in particular – are still a go-to for many entrepreneurs who are on the cusp of launching their next venture. Most entrepreneurs have spent hours, days, or weeks brainstorming new business names. And you can’t blame them. Sorry… that domain is not available.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Thus it’s not a surprise that people love their favorite smartphone brand, cringe when you mention their cable company, or even hate the mention of a particular bank. Overall, your customers now have near-instantaneous power to hold companies and brands accountable for their words and actions. Marty Zwilling.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. a holding company from which he has made some of the most lucrative investments seen over the past few decades.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2017

Thus it’s not a surprise that people love their favorite smartphone brand, cringe when you mention their cable company, or even hate the mention of a particular bank. Sustained success in the future will require companies to dramatically shift their emphasis from short-term shareholder value to shared value for multiple stakeholders.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

If they’re lucky, companies — like individuals — are able to step back, evaluate their role in the world, and define their very existence. Any startup should center its methods on a meaningful, strategic purpose. Sure, a company’s goal may be to generate a revenue, but corporate purpose focuses on a business’s aspirations beyond that.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Consumers should feel better about their privacy and the stringent rules that hold companies responsible for protecting their personal information. And most of the big tech enterprise companies should be fine, too. Venkat holds a MBA from UT Austin and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Texas Tech University.

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Hippoland

APRIL 17, 2015

After selling LaunchBit , I’ve decided to move on and join the investing team at 500 Startups and will be running the 500 Startups accelerator in my hometown Mountain View. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, and I love building things with other people. To be honest, I didn’t think I would ever join a VC.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 19, 2015

Below, 15 founders from Young Entrepreneur Council share the surprising perks your employees might really care about. Sure we provide benefits and hold company retreats, but they were most appreciative of the information that allowed them to be the agents of their own financial wellbeing. – David Hassell, 15Five.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2022

(This blog post was first published as an article in Entrepreneur Magazine on April 15.). Weak and ineffective boards hold a company back. Throughout my 20+ years of entrepreneurship , I’ve led four companies (including Bolster, where I’m a co-founder and CEO today) and served on eight boards.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Going global with a startup or business is easier than it has ever been (although it still has its challenges), and for many winning entrepreneurs, their success has been attributed to their consideration toward international expansion right from the very start. See Also: International Do’s and Don’ts For the Traveling Entrepreneur.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

In the early days, tracking the percentage of ownership in a startup is easy. Things can escalate quickly, however, when a startup decides to seek investors. A well-kept cap table is a necessary ingredient of proper recordkeeping long after a startup has “started up”. Why do cap tables matter?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. A startup’s first hires: What to look for | Fortune - [link].

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

China’s Age of Malaise [Evan Osnos/New Yorker] – A loooong read but essential stuff if you are interested in China from an sort of view (cultural, economic, geopolitical, startup). This triggered entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras to collect the bounty.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo! How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. link] Harry.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors. I got a text from Apoorva asking if we could reconnect.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners their inspirational leaders and here’s what they had to say; #1- Martin Luther King Jr. I am a huge fan of Charlie Munger, who is the Vice Chairman of the famed holding company Berkshire Hathaway. As an entrepreneur, I have always been inspired by the journey of Steve Jobs.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Experts from the company will provide a keynote on its Moonshot Factory for radical innovation along with a workshop on leveraging Google’s ecosystem for startup success. Her company is the world’s largest e-commerce investor, investing over $5 billion in 10,000 entrepreneurs in 13 countries.

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