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10 Business Model Components Required In Every Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Common choices include manufacturing in-house, outsourcing, off-the-shelf parts. Test your projections against actual published reports from similar companies. Investors look for a sustainable competitive advantage, like a patent. Be specific on sales channels and marketing initiatives. Production. Distribution. Competition.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. The app is simple to use, and if you think about photo polling apps, they tend to be very data oriented, reporting how many females or males like things.

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How to Get Your Startup Acquired by Larger Brands

Tech Zulu Event

While it is impossible to know what the future holds, startup business owners can bank on the fact that potential future buyers will be evaluating their financial statements in addition to the value of their corporate team, working partnerships, marketing efforts, patents, and reputation. Key functions should not be outsourced.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? At L90 (Startup 3.0) , we were sued by DoubleClick on the eve of our IPO for alleged patent-infrindgement. Find a Simple Way to Tell a Complex Story (and ano. Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Sure, you need to take the proper precautions to protect your idea first (patents, copyrights, etc.), particularly with international patent laws. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Stage two: They say the solution was obvious all along." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. Where's Jack Bauer?

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

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