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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

What you will convey in your conversations What protections you will place on those communications For example, you might decide that portions of your concept will be controlled more closely (a secret algorithm). I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

Jennifer Monti, MD, a cardiologist and entrepreneur, is the director of Maine Medical Center’s new ‘Innovation Cohort’. Questions of IP. I encourage people to even try and get to the relevant IP questions—that would be a sign of progress and success.”. This is how it works at most medical centers. The Program.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

What you will convey in your conversations What protections you will place on those communications For example, you might decide that portions of your concept will be controlled more closely (a secret algorithm). I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9.

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. Their goal is to partner in really unique ways with entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors, to create businesses and brands in new categories for P&G. We're here as a support ecosystem, to help founders build their companies.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Interview with Dave Compton, NetPlenish.com

socalTECH

For example, my dog eats two cans of dog food a day, if there are ten cans in the pantry, that means five days and he's out. What makes us unique is we've filed a lot of IP on these timed, repetitive searches, and I think that's what is going to give us a unique value proposition. That's what we focus on. Are you funded yet?

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