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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. Microsoft was one of the first successful high-tech companies to not distribute its profits to shareholders. One Of The Most Important Startup Skills. "The " [Tweet this quote].

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

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Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. Unlike an unregistered copyright, which you gain automatically by expressing an idea in written form, you cannot gain intellectual property protection by simply being the first person to describe an idea in writing. Provisional Approach.

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Entrepreneurs Confuse Product and Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition. Development and rollout.

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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition. Development and rollout.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy.

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Don’t Assume Product Plans are Better Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition. Development and rollout.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. Dmitry walks the audience through the basic techniques that most high-tech savvy professionals use to streamline our digital lives. I believe in consensus building and understand Sikakkar’s sentiment.

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