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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

“Front-line staff are uniquely positioned to articulate clinically relevant needs and to articulate the design-based principles that can make our healthcare smarter and more human,” Monti said. Questions of IP. I encourage people to even try and get to the relevant IP questions—that would be a sign of progress and success.”.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Here is where having Marc Berte and a team out of MIT who have designed systems like this for years gave one confidence we could do something others couldn’t copy and at price points that could make us market leaders over night. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? Were they ambitious?

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. When doctors implant devices to replace a patient’s missing bones or support damaged bones, those devices were probably designed, developed, and/or manufactured in Warsaw. Some of these entrepreneurs are faculty and staff members who license their own work.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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