Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. With the Internet and modern video communication tools, including Skype and Google Hangout, you can find the people you need, from anywhere in the world, and sign them up quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

(Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. They seek to establish win-win relationships with all partners, including investors, and treat them all as trusted advisors, rather than win-loss opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Not worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Get your Internet domain name and website. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. New Rules for China.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Despite what you hear from some Internet spammers, there are no slam-dunk entrepreneur ideas that can make you rich with no risk and minimal effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Software crowd sourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Despite what you hear from some Internet spammers, there are no slam-dunk entrepreneur ideas that can make you rich with no risk and minimal effort.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 267

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. They seek to establish win-win relationships with all partners, including investors, and treat them all as trusted advisors, rather than win-loss opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction. Software crowd sourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. They seek to establish win-win relationships with all partners, including investors, and treat them all as trusted advisors, rather than win-loss opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Get your Internet domain name and website. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. With the Internet and modern video communication tools, including Skype and Google Hangout, you can find the people you need, from anywhere in the world, and sign them up quickly.

Intellectual Property 261

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. entrepreneur startup name intellectual property trademark'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Despite what you hear from some Internet spammers, there are no slam-dunk entrepreneur ideas that can make you rich with no risk and minimal effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. 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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. New Rules for China.

China 220

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. Every personal and business computer is connected to the internet these days, which puts people and companies in harm’s way for cyber attacks. So what can organizations do? Think again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Create and highlight your intellectual property portfolio. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media. In today’s world, if your startup is not visible on the Internet, you haven’t started yet. In addition, your company and social media names are key intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Apply for contests and business grants. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Internet domain name. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property. Free Speech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

New products emerge, as diverse as networked-art installations, Internet-of-Things innovations, and many other hybrid software-hardware solutions. Now is the time for all you hobbyists and inventors to take the next step and turn your passion into a business.

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