Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Accountability. Idea management. Innovation is not a one-time thing. Observe and measure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

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. Don’t let your passion and ego overcome good business sense and common courtesy as you educate people on other alternatives in the marketplace.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

People need to be influenced and educated to change consumption habits, expectations, and buying patterns. It may sound counterintuitive, but when you are creating a new market, competition helps legitimize it and increases the size of the pie. Use social media and the media to build demand for change. Concept marketing is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2013

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A while back, I wrote about the importance of a “ sustainable competitive advantage ,” and outlined the business plan value and limitations of patents and competitor feature comparisons. Tags: sustainable competitive advantage startup customer service differentiate. As a startup, you have the opportunity to lead. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. The network effect is where the value of your business increases exponentially as your user count goes up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. You need patents and trademarks as a barrier to entry. Confidently believe that you have no real competitors. Innovation in the face of a few competitors is much less risky.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. We talked about patents. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Whether it’s something as extensive as filing patents, more simple trademark registrations, and or putting appropriate documentation in place, don’t ignore this and don’t rely on boilerplate online templates. And relying on NDAs is not the answer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 3: Competition. But how do you convince millions of people that need to be educated that they have a document management problems to upload their documents in the first place? Page 4: Business Model. Page 5: Financials.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. DatavizVR (Austin, TX). Price: $1.99 Quirktastic Media (Durham, NC).

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