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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

InfoChachkie

Most newspapers are written at a third-grade reading level, White House press releases average a fourth-grade reading level and the New York Times is easily digestible by the average fifth grader. Patents and Trademarks. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Distribution and Sales. Competition.

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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting. Sometimes conflict comes because executives want to increase personal compensation and investors aren’t in favor of this.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. . We checked patents. What about competing patents. “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Register some intellectual property.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Register some intellectual property.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. Register some intellectual property.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

One of the big things about Telesign, and if you go back to the founders, and the things they did well before I got here, is they spent lots of time and effort around writing patents and protecting their IP. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us.