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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

Jennifer Monti, MD, a cardiologist and entrepreneur, is the director of Maine Medical Center’s new ‘Innovation Cohort’. Questions of IP. I encourage people to even try and get to the relevant IP questions—that would be a sign of progress and success.”. This is how it works at most medical centers. The Program.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea.

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

Vanessa Dawson: The Vinetta Project is an entreneurial ecosystem and deal flow pipeline that works with early stage, female tech founders, and helps them to access both resources and capital for their business. We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. What is The Vinetta Project?

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Are NDAs Worth Much?

Tech Zulu Event

Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. Cost of enforcing — Considering the expense of a lawsuit, not just in money but in time, resources, and potential reputational damage, the costs might outweigh any potential benefit.

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Five Reasons for Setting Startup Strategy Early

Startup Professionals Musings

The first purpose of a strategy is to organize and reallocate your resources to increase return on the amount of money invested in your startup to-date. Intellectual property (IP). Patent protection is no guarantee, but it does improve the chances of building businesses that have a sustainable competitive advantage. Scalability.

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