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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

As I wrote in Part I of this post, many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright. When presented with a product or service in development, we often […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
3 Jul 2012
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Make Sure Your Startup Domain is Investor Friendly

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. These people are highly focused on investment areas they know, which have a large opportunity for growth, revenue projection of $20M or more in five years, and a high return that can […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
2 Jul 2012
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How do venture capitalists feel about following a crowdfunding capital raise?

This was one of the primary subjects for discussion at Venture Forward 2012 (ventureforwardconference.com). The answer to that question at the pre-conference speaker’s dinner implied unanimous agreement (from a group consisting of many of the top angels, VCs, lawyers, and pundits in the industry), that “direct, equity-based, common stock crowd funding as envisioned by the […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
28 Jun 2012
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True Story: We Didn’t Buy The Victim Pitch

Most of us know not to complain about the previous employer during a job interview. Fair or not, it just doesn’t work, right? The new job never want to hire somebody with that kind of chip on a shoulder. More so with investor pitches. I was at one once, as an investor member of a […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
26 Jun 2012
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Assume Your Market is People Like You, Then Fail

Face reality. As an entrepreneur, you should assume none of your customers is like you, yet I find that most entrepreneurs assume just the opposite. Customers don’t have your technical base, the passion, and interest iPreview (opens in a new tab)n your solution. In fact, even if they did, they couldn’t find you in the […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
24 Jun 2012
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