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How Entrepreneurs Need To Plan To Protect Their Business

The Startup Magazine

Choosing the right structure not only impacts your personal liability but also your ability to protect intellectual property, secure investment, and manage taxes. Use Contracts to Your Advantage Whether you’re hiring employees, working with vendors, or entering into agreements with partners, contracts are essential.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Who can I hire later? For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative or operational. Operational products, like process automation or reservation systems, may be large but mundane, and more easily outsourced.

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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative or operational. Operational products, like process automation or reservation systems, may be large but mundane, and more easily outsourced.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Their financial models are based on membership fees that grant access to a shared coworking space, resources, and access to other founders and operational expertise. That’s because unlike accelerators, which operate on a six- to 12-week cadence, studios don’t have a set timeframe. Carlos stirred his coffee.

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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

Actually, building and nurturing the right team is the hard part, requiring communication, hiring, and leadership. Intellectual property is required for a competitive edge. It starts with documenting and communicating a real purpose and mission in terms everyone can get excited about.

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The Five Most Common Legal Mistakes New Companies Make

YoungUpstarts

But operating as a sole proprietor leaves you personally responsible for any debts and legal liabilities you might incur. Intellectual Property, the core of the business, is not protected. Your intellectual property is the backbone of your business.