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Unlocking North American Growth: Expanding Your Startup into Canada and Mexico

The Startup Magazine

The country’s business-friendly environment is bolstered by its strong intellectual property laws, well-established financial systems, and government support programs for innovation and entrepreneurship. Understanding the Canadian Market Canada is often seen as an appealing option for startups due to its proximity to the U.S.,

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7 Reasons That Investors Won’t Fund Inventions Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. You need a viable business model and customers.

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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. Every business is global, but patent rules differ around the world. There is no such thing as a world-wide patent.

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7 Business Realities To Temper Invention Excitement

Startup Professionals Musings

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. You need a viable business model and customers.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

One of the ways our adversaries try to gain the advantage is by attacking our supply chain through methods like fraud, introduction of counterfeit materials, control of raw materials, cyber and intellectual property attacks, denying access to strategic materials and rare earth minerals. In most instances, this is really very positive.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

Software changes fast and the government moves slowly. We need a global solution. I’m a big supporter of building and protecting a portfolio of real intellectual property, and maximizing your startup’s valuation, but it shouldn’t be just a legal game. Patents only help the big guys who want no change. Marty Zwilling.

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How Much Should You Get For Your Invention Idea?

Startup Professionals Musings

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities and new government regulations. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret or trademark. You need a viable business model and customers.