Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 26, 2015
" Investors want to buy into an entrepreneur with a startup that can provide evidence of an ability to double customer productivity, at half the cost, with patented technology. Include your sustainable competitive advantage. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/17/2015.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 11, 2015
They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. Taking action to file even a provisional patent shows you have the conviction and skill to execute while others have no barrier to entry.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 31, 2015
For example, “I have patented a new LCD with double the intensity at half the cost, already proven locally, and I just need resources to scale for this market.” Your second sentence should acknowledge competition, but highlight your added value. Your second sentence should acknowledge competition, but highlight your added value.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2011
Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Or worse yet, the entrepreneur is so arrogant that he hasn’t even used Google to figure out he has competition just down the street.
Xconomy
JUNE 3, 2016
Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Entrepreneurs who have no patents, trade secrets or trademarks are usually deemed non-fundable and non-competitive. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/20/2015.
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