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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. We checked patents. What about competing patents. I was not fried. I was not scared. I was not scarred. It is safe.

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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. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

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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. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Which button do you press? didn’t think so.

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