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InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Along with your cash, customers and employees, a healthy startup culture will prove to be one of your most precious assets. . Banana IP. "Intellectual As described in IP Is Worthless To A Startup , most startups over estimate the value of their intellectual property. Treasure it. " [Tweet this quote].
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2019
Thomas Russell: ETC Solar develops effectively transparent contacts for solar cell manufacturers, to improve their power output by five percent and to dramatically reduce manufacturing costs. Typically, five to six percent of the surface of a solar cell is covered with metal. What does ETC Solar do? And I like the challenge.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 9, 2010
This is the origin of the “ solution looking for a problem ” and “ if we build it, they will come ” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Controlling your IP address is a big deal.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free….
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free….
socalTECH
JUNE 9, 2014
If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. One of those, is content we know from our licensing customers is the kind of content they are interested in.
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