Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
In my years of advising startups, and also as an occasional angel investor, I still recommend this set of best practices to prepare you for platform applications: Formalize a business entity immediately. File a provisional patent or other intellectual property. Prepare a slide deck to highlight product and business.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 25, 2009
Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. In other words, find a lawyer who will take the time to understand the issues underlying your business and advise you how to best accomplish your objectives while minimizing your legal exposure. Your Lawyer is not a Doberman….
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SoCal CTO
MARCH 4, 2010
I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.
Frank Addante
MAY 15, 2006
Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO. raising capital, underwriters backing out, extreme criticism, patent lawsuit from our competitor, etc.) Bootstrap 2. 7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race 3.
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