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10 Finance Tips for Very Early-Stage Startups

Tech Zulu Event

We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash. Create a bottom-up financial forecast that uses your detailed budget and sales projections as the starting point. Protect yourself by clearly outlining confidentiality, termination provisions, and IP ownership in employee contracts and hiring documentation.

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10 Finance Tips for Very Early-Stage Startups

Tech Zulu Event

We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash. Create a bottom-up financial forecast that uses your detailed budget and sales projections as the starting point. Protect yourself by clearly outlining confidentiality, termination provisions, and IP ownership in employee contracts and hiring documentation.

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Insights: Navigating the Waters of Work for Hire For Game Developers

socalTECH

There was a time in console and PC game development when developers could enter a publishing agreement and retain the rights to the IP they created. The following is a list of suggestions and tips to keep as much as you can when dealing with a work-for-hire negotiation. Read the rest of Navigating the Waters of Work for Hire.

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., This often happens with B2B or enterprise sales pitches when founders include letters of intent (LOIs) in their calculation of traction. and prepare a response.

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Is Your Organization Ready to Become an Ecosystem Driver?

Xconomy

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. [ This article is co-authored by Stephanie Woerner. ]. However, there is still room for competition. – Add complementary and possibly competitor products.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. For company registration, angel deals, Series A & B funding, Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOP), IP filings and even litigation it doesn’t need to be that way.

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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz

socalTECH

If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. With all due respect to the business here, this is barely at the tip of the iceberg-even though we've delivered 11.3 What's the technology behind this?