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Interview with Ryan Scott, CauseCast

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An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. We launched that section with Paramount, with the movie ad as the lead sponsor.

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Interview with Kevin Kent, Inspired Instruments

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My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. They find out it is freaking hard to actually play guitar. So how do you get over that challenge?

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Entrepreneur Startup Share Depends on Contribution

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. The same variables apply, but here skills and experience are paramount. If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO. Pre-existing intellectual property.

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Splitting Startup Equity for Your Piece of the Pie

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. The same variables apply, but here skills and experience are paramount. If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO. Pre-existing intellectual property.

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