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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. Not worth it.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

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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Interview with Daryl Bernstein, RightSignature

socalTECH

We've been very careful in designing a system to be fully compliance with those standards. For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. They couldn't produce the original contract. Obie Fernandez gave us a good one.

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Interview with Kinetic Traction Systems

socalTECH

The origins of the design that we have goes back to a company from the United Kingdom in the late 90's, and actually came out of high speed, centrifuge technology which is used for uranium enrichment. It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Gross margins at 66% is fine (they’re selling through a reseller who takes a 33% margin) but their sales aren’t yet large enough to cover the costs of their IT development team + management + marketing + office costs, etc.

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