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Should I license my IP, sell a royalty stream, or just produce products?

Berkonomics

So here goes: How would I find companies willing to license my intellectual property or to invest in a royalty stream from licenses? Investment banker? 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.

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Should I license my IP, sell a royalty stream, or just produce products?

Berkonomics

So here goes: How would I find companies willing to license my intellectual property or to invest in a royalty stream from licenses? Investment banker? 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.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years. Business - how are you actually going to make money? many more (please comment below)

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Would they build a world class team. It was impressive.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: Increase return on equity invested. 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.

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Five Reasons for Setting Startup Strategy Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: To increase return on equity invested. 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.

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