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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The value proposition must clearly define the target customer, the customer’s problem and pain, your unique solution, and the net benefit of this solution from the customer's perspective. Competition. Investors look for a sustainable competitive advantage, like a patent. What is the need you fill or problem you solve?
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. If you have no better info, use 5x as the multiple.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 12, 2015
Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. They benchmark their ideas against competition, use metrics to track acceptance, sales growth, and return on investment. Net result and reward. Accountability. Marty Zwilling.
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Thus, cast your research net beyond VC-backed companies to fully understand a school’s ability to foster viable businesses. Are funds available to invest in student businesses? Ask: How many patents were filed by students and faculty during each of the past five years? Is there a venture competition with cash prizes?
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. If you have no better info, use 5x as the multiple.
socalTECH
JUNE 25, 2009
Nobody in our competitive space can do all of those things, because they simply don't control their own destiny, because they don't own their own technology. They can call us, we turn it into a IP call, and a 10 digit phone number, we then figure out where that user is on the planet, and deliver it over IP, making it a complete on-net call.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Let’s not take any credit here for NewCo.
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