Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Major innovation, with major payback, requires real change, addresses a major pain point, and hits a large customer segment who can pay. I do recommend non-disclosures and patents, but more can be gained than lost by talking to outside experts. For example, smart entrepreneurs look for recognizable patterns in disconnected domains.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 18, 2022
They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.
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socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2013
Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? We offer up those ideas and patents to any user on the Internet, and they can sign up on the site to work with the entrepreneur on the idea. and NASA, as well as universities.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 21, 2020
They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 31, 2012
Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 30, 2012
Statistically, the costs to the first inventor of a new technology are at least a third higher than to follow-on innovators in the same technology. Of course, the first one gets the patent. But patent disclosure requirements often make imitation easier, and smart technologists can work around most patents anyway.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric.
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