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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Bask in the success as it happens.

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Inspiration Without Perspiration is a Dull Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Bask in the success as it happens.

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Most Entrepreneurs Need to be Inspired to Perspire

Startup Professionals Musings

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Bask in the success as it happens.

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Success is More Inspiration and Less Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Bask in the success as it happens.

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

Xconomy

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). —When Merck (NYSE: MRK ) bought Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5

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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level.

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