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Respect Competitors and Capitalize on Your Strengths

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. It's a great talk.

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