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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

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Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. You need all of these people to bake the cake.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. You need all of these people to bake the cake.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

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“Learn from the mistakes of others. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 10) Grant An Investor Anti-dilution Protection. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. For company registration, angel deals, Series A & B funding, Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOP), IP filings and even litigation it doesn’t need to be that way. And Brad Feld.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

I established such a relationship with a fantastic lawyer and he taught me a great deal over the 10 years we worked together. They make mistakes. The money you pay your IP lawyer should be judiciously spent, but you should not attempt to save money by working with someone without the appropriate experience in your technical domain.