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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

By definition, your core is your intellectual property foundation, the thing that makes your business most valuable to customers, investors and perhaps someday to potential buyers of the business. Patents, branding, marketing and more. What is your core competency? There is much to reinforce in such behavior.

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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Every business is global, but patent rules differ around the world.

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Every New Venture Needs A Product And A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

It allows all members of your team, including marketing, support, and sales, to size and build the business plan processes they need to find customers, deliver, and maintain grow the business. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks.

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Hire for your core. Partner for the rest.

Berkonomics

By definition, your core is your intellectual property foundation, the thing that makes your business most valuable to customers, investors and perhaps someday to potential buyers. Or we do so with brilliant research and development, highly trained sales forces, large advertising campaigns, or secret processes.

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VIZIO Sues Competitor

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saying late Wednesday that it has filed a patent infringement suite against the firm. VIZIO said it is seeking to keep Funai, which manufactures HDTVs for Philips, Magnavox, Emerson, Sylvania, and Symphonic, from importing and selling high definition televisions. Details on the patents in question were not released.

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Why Smart Entrepreneurs Build Plans For Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It allows all members of your team, including marketing, support, and sales, to size and build the business plan processes they need to find customers, deliver, and maintain grow the business. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” You need both to survive.

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