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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Business risks are not just development risks.

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

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Victory usually satisfies, but it seldom educates. If we had stayed on the sidelines, waiting for less market uncertainty, we would have lost the opportunity to file the landmark medical robotic patents that eventually motivated Intuitive Surgical to purchase Computer Motion for approximately $150 million. Christy was correct.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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More recently, we licensed our platform to leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith, so that he could transform his $200,000 coaching engagements into a virtual program, so that a much wider audience could benefit from Marshall's process and work. We have patents filed on this process.

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