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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. It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. 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?

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

Questions of IP. In general, the way it works is that individual inventors are named as inventors on the patents, and then the IP would be licensed back by spin-off companies to further develop the technology, according to Monti. There have been a few failed companies and there is one currently incubating.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

This is going to be fairly specific to the company. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. How Stealthy Should You Be? False Confidence.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

This is going to be fairly specific to the company. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. How Stealthy Should You Be? False Confidence.

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles. What is The Vinetta Project?

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Are NDAs Worth Much?

Tech Zulu Event

In practice, lots of companies in the startup world use them to apply to ANY information deemed to be sensitive. Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. That said, NDAs should never take the place of solid IP protection.

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Startups Need the ‘Why’ Before the ‘What’ to Build

Startup Professionals Musings

The first purpose of a strategy is to organize and reallocate your resources to increase return on the amount of money invested in your startup to-date. Look at your startup through the eyes of a potential lender or investor, and create a strategy and plans that make your company an attractive place to invest. Scalability.

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