CTO Hire Demand Paramount Patents 
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2012
Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Sacrifice and time commitment. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Sacrifice and time commitment. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity.
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