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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Banana IP. "Intellectual As described in IP Is Worthless To A Startup , most startups over estimate the value of their intellectual property. " [Tweet this quote].

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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. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.

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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?