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7 Ways To Validate Your Business Idea Before Starting

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney. Of course, existing patents don’t stop you from innovating, but charging ahead into a wall is no fun.

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Apply Hospitality-Driven Thinking to Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Rather than leave your customer focus at the delivery stage, and technology in the front, customer needs and expectations must be the beginning of your journey via requirements, and remembered all along the way in times of crisis and confusion, competition, growth, failure, and success.

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9 Crucial Elements Of Every New Venture Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors know that operational and employee expenses are always higher than anticipated, not to mention customer acquisition costs, capital expenses, and ongoing competitive initiatives. Patents are a good place for you to start. Patents are a good place for you to start. Convince me that you understand your competition.

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Meet the 25 Startups Competing at SXSW Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. Their four products include an e-commerce shop, social app, content and a multi-genre convention (QuickCon coming in Summer 2019). Quirktastic Media (Durham, NC).

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market.

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