Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. It won’t cost you the many thousands of dollars to outsource your prototype to China, and risk losing the intellectual property, and it will hook you up to peers and investors who can help you make your dream a reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

Dismiss the need to register any intellectual property. Entrepreneurs who under-estimate cash requirements or focus on product development while someone else pays the bills are doomed to fail over and over again. Some entrepreneurs believe that being first to market will keep them ahead of competitors.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

And hiring an intellectual property attorney may seem like a budget dealbreaker. However, partnering with an experienced attorney allows new business owners to focus on other tasks like product development, employee training, and advertising, rather than the intricacies of trademark law and submitting applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development. Fabulous solutions require great technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. Marketing should start before product development. Easier-to-use’ and other fuzzy terms won’t get any attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. Marketing should start before product development. Easier-to-use’ and other fuzzy terms won’t get any attention.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Develop a strong backbone. The backbone of your technology company revolves around a well-organized, up-to-date, specific and documented vision, brand-key, business plan, intellectual property rights, contracts, financial administration, NDAs and bylaws it can rely on. Most start-ups fail.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article is the third of a three-part series by Baldwins Intellectual Property that focuses on the importance of intellectual property for startup companies. What is intellectual property? Intellectual property is about creations of the mind.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

So far it sounded like a fair deal, considering we didn’t yet have a product developed – only a pitch deck, a business plan, a fleshed-out idea, and some user interface (UI) designs of what we thought our online product would look like. Do they (or does their firm) have experience with intellectual property and patents?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A finalist in the Blockchain category , which will pitch on at 9:30 am Sunday, March 10, Knowbella has a mission to create a publicly available scientific ecosystem whereby all the research data and publication development are open and transparent. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Professional services such as attorneys, accountants, consultants, and design or product development companies are classic body shop businesses that can’t scale. See Also: Intellectual Property: How Do You Protect Your Creations? They will ask “do the assets walk out the door at the end of the working day?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation. A formalized process with timelines and milestones is a must.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Fear of failure can kill innovation. A formalized process with timelines and milestones is a must.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2013

While it’s true that communities of like-minded people exist both in the real world and online, it’s a rare innovator who’ll be willing to divulge the details of his work, especially in an age when more people than ever play fast and loose with intellectual property.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Failing to protect Intellectual Property Coders handle one of your company’s most valuable assets: the code. Placing marketing functions away from the target market This mistake is common among foreign companies that start out with a development center in a low-cost locale and develop a product for the US market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2016

Although this measure provides the encouragement and moral support a new businessperson needs, it often does not provide sufficient money to cover the expensive tasks of product development, set-up of operations and initial payrolls. Protecting Your Intellectual Property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Innovation teams perform best when they trust that failure will not result in punitive measures.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 25, 2020

Product collaborations involve a range of intellectual property (IP) and other commercial issues. Where the collaboration involves one party producing a product that incorporates elements from the other party, the agreement is, at its heart, a licence agreement.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2018

So focus on the problem being solved, protect your novel ideas with Intellectual property protection, research every aspect of the business’s landscape and build the business from the strategic level. Only when that’s done should you move on to developing tactical plans. Innovation is about problem solving. Be prepared to fail.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. would look in each of the verticals.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a great resource to help you learn more about intellectual property. Websites: Quirky: This is a great place to learn about the product development process, and to take a shot at getting your idea picked from a host of others to be manufactured. Patent Search.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2011

Establishing a strong brand position is an internal exercise that starts at product development and continues through rollout. Companies can easily fall ion the trap of working to build awareness of their product or brand without first positioning carefully. Establish your brand position first, build awareness second.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

The life cycle of a product is associated with marketing and management decisions within businesses, and all products go through five primary stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Development. The product development stage is often referred to as “the valley of death.”

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. link] Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company | infoChachkie. [.] (IP) They know everything – just ask them. It’s called arrogance.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Product Development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with just your pre-seed, FFF capital. Intellectual Property. If your business can secure any intellectual property rights now would be the time to do it.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital. If not, at the bare minimum you will need an interactable wireframe mockup that demonstrates the product.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In the earliest stages, these skills relate to what any good founding team should bring to the table — an acumen for business strategy and product development coupled with great engineering. Starting and scaling a company requires execution, and execution requires skills. There are ~25 high education institutions in the area.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. If you need to learn how to push your product to market and find people that can help you do it, this is the meetup for you.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2015

What differentiates those who do have the bones of an inventor from us regular people? See if you’ve got what it takes to invent.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Kanbanery â?? LeanKit Kanban â??

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. Since it is Excel based, we’re not giving up any intellectual property.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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