Inventors' handbook Disclosure and confidentiality Know the important difference between protecting your idea against disclosure and protecting your idea against infringement. Proving the invention Prototypes are necessary. Building a team and seeking funding To convince others that your invention is a business opportunity with excellent investment potential you may need a team that demonstrates a range of skills. Finding and approaching companies Finding the right companies to approach, and approaching them the right way, is important if you want a licensing agreement with a company. Novelty and prior art At least one significant part of your invention's technology must be completely new. Assessing the risk ahead Ask yourself the vital question: "Is there enough evidence to justify taking my idea any further?" Protecting your idea At some point you must legally protect your intellectual property (IP). Business planning A business plan is essential for transforming an invention into a commercial product.
A Deeper Look At Blackbox’s Data On Startup Failure And Its Top Cause: Premature Scaling [Infographic] Earlier this week, we covered Blackbox, the young company responsible for creating The Startup Genome Report, an ongoing, collaborative R&D project designed to take a comprehensive dive into what makes Silicon Valley startups successful — and not. (Read our initial coverage here.) On Tuesday, we covered the company’s launch of what it calls the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool for startups that helps founders monitor their progress in different growth categories. Along with the diagnostic tool, Blackbox also released a new research report on the major causes of startup failure, including perhaps more significantly, the primary cause of startups kicking the bucket: Premature scaling. To refresh, since February, Blackbox has collected a dataset from over 3,200 high-growth tech startups, with the results of their studies showing that premature scaling is the primary cause of startup failure, afflicting 70 percent of all the startups that went to meet their maker.
Home :: GEM Global Entrepreneurship Monitor :: Patents Simple Story Videos - Complex solutions made simple Wavii Google How to name your startup Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually building something we can put in front of users. Here are 3 steps I would take if I was naming a new startup: 1. Often constraints are good when undertaking a creative process like naming your startup. GoogleTwitterFacebookFoursquareDropBoxPocketTumblrFlickrHipChatSparrowTweetbotReeder All great startups. SquarePathBox 2. I used to try to be very clever about naming my startup. Unfortunately, I’m not the most creative person. Therefore, since I don’t have that creativity, I take a slightly different approach. I also like the “real word” approach for a couple of other reasons: You’re more likely to end up with a name that can be “spoken” without confusion. 3. I see many, many founders limiting themselves with the domain name. My current startup is named Buffer, but the domain name is bufferapp.com.
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