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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

Patents, branding, marketing and more. In the patent world, we protect this intellectual core with what we call a “patent thicket,” aptly describing the attempt to surround the core patent with other patents that defend the core and further prevent competitors from attacking the central component of the business.

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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Although Elon Musk doesn’t talk about it very much, he owns over 350 patents through Tesla, just one of his many companies.

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Acacia Research Gets $12.4M Win Against Yahoo

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Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation has scored a major patent lawsuit win, this time against Yahoo! , According to Acacia Research, its subsidiary, Creative Internet Advertising Corporation, has received $12.4M in a final judgment for willful infringement of the firm's patents.

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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

In the patent world, we protect this intellectual core with what we call a “patent thicket,” aptly describing the attempt to surround the core patent with other patents that defend the core and further prevent competitors from attacking the central component of the business.

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5 Keys To An Unbeatable Solution For Your New Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

You may be a product expert, but have little experience with running a business, or marketing, or sales. I do recommend non-disclosures and patents, but more can be gained than lost by talking to outside experts. The value of “word of mouth” advertising is largely overrated.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors

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Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Advertisers. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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Interview with Steve Pelletier, FatTail

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However, what happened as we worked with clients on AdBook, we got deep into the trenches with online ad sales and learning the operational nuances--there are plenty--we realized that there were a couple of big gaps in the market. Because of that, the sales team is left with a data entry problem. It's an automatic proposal builder.