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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. Banana IP. "Intellectual As described in IP Is Worthless To A Startup , most startups over estimate the value of their intellectual property. "Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."

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10 Concrete Steps to Assure Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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Ten Principles Which Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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Ten Steps to Survival by Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. If you're one of the ten finalists, you get intense coaching.