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Investors Look for These Six Competitive Elements

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the toughest and yet most important questions you will be asked by savvy potential startup investors is “What is your sustainable competitive advantage?” Yet many entrepreneurs, maybe in their passion for their new product, gloss over this one, or even announce that they have no competition. Strong focus and differentiation.

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6 Key Drivers To a Long-Term Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the toughest and yet most important questions you will be asked by savvy potential startup investors is “What is your sustainable competitive advantage?” Yet many entrepreneurs, maybe in their passion for their new product, gloss over this one, or even announce that they have no competition. Strong focus and differentiation.

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Emulex Sues Broadcom

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The faceoff between Emulex and Broadcom is heating up today, as Costa Mesa-based Emulex , a maker of storage area networking hardware, said Monday afternoon that it has filed a lawsuit against Irvein-based Broadcom. Tags: emulex broadcom legal lawsuit patent hardawre.

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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible.

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8 Portfolio Assets Are Key To Your Startup Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Copyrights.

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10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Accountability.

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On Ramp Wireless: Connecting The Smart Grid

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Our initial apps have been around distribution automation or distribution monitoring, such as monitoring distribution lines and figuring out when they go down, particularly in areas not covered by cellular or other wireless networks, and which are hard to reach. Lots of vendors are looking at cell phone networks as being nearly ubiquitous.