Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 7, 2011
I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2011
Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. Sleeping giants do wake up.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 23, 2010
Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. Sleeping giants do wake up.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 25, 2009
Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients (anyone up for a glass of OJ?). A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face.
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