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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?

Startup Professionals Musings

Building the product may be the easy part of your startup challenge. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the co-founders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked or copyrighted. Every previous experience filing and winning a patent is a rare and valuable asset.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We hired outside experts. We checked patents. We checked charge times. And that’s why uBeam is rightly focused on perfecting their product, innovating, hiring and building for the future not on responding to every criticism from those without details of what we’re actually doing. What about competing patents.