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Avoiding Intellectual Property Problems When Starting a New IT Business

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 -- Look Before You Leap: Avoiding Intellectual Property Problems When Starting a New IT Business. In businesses driven by information technology, your patents, trademarks and other intellectual properties are essential to your value. See [link] (more)

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How to Give Your Startup Idea The Sniff Test

Startup Professionals Musings

No known patents filed. Maybe the solution hasn’t yet been commercialized, but a patent has been submitted by someone else, putting your idea in jeopardy. Another series of searches on Google Patents and the US Patent Office site and Free Patents Online is in order at this point. Large and growing market.

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How PolarPro's Photo Filters Are Riding The GoPro Wave

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Anyone who is into action sports know that GoPro has absolutely changed how the market since its debut, where it''s more odd to see action sports athletes not using a GoPro than using one. How did you go from those prototypes to a real product and manufacturing? We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012.

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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. Plus, our In-App Banner Apps product has also been scaling very fast. Asher Delug: We''ve been very product focused, and focused on innovation since inception.

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume. There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. Too little focus on marketing. Even viral marketing costs real money and time. No intellectual property.

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Grokker Wants to Help You Cook, Keep Fit and Meditate

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That was 2012. I founded Grokker in 2012. including Chief of their global personals online dating service and Head of Marketing for their multi-billion dollar worldwide Search & Marketplace businesses (Shopping, Travel, Autos, etc.). Tell us more about yourself? I am a retired Internet executive.

Help 87
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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services.