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Are Startups Now Changing the World Instead of the Web?

It’s too soon for rigorous data analysis. I don’t have surveys. But I’ve been through about 120 startup business plans in the last month and it seems like there’s a big shift. There’s a lot more science and a lot less web. There’s a lot more save the people, save the world, than there is […]

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Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software

Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

Startups Need the ‘Why’ Before the ‘What’ to Build

All too many startups are founded simply on the basis of a new and exciting technology invented by an industrious technologist. This is the origin of the “solution looking for a problem” and “if we build it, they will come” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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Angel Investors: Watch for Business Plan Competitions

I just finished three days as a judge for the Rice University million-dollar business plan competition, which was held at the Rice campus in Houston last Thursday through Saturday. If you’re an angel investor and you aren’t aware of business plan competitions, maybe you should be. The finals were very impressive. As the six finalist companies […]

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Tim Berry , Founder , Startup Professionals

Scaling up? Here’s when an option plan can help

Amount of Startup Equity Depends on Contribution

One of the first tough decisions that startup founders have to make is how to allocate or split the equity among co-founders. The easy answer of splitting it equally among all co-founders, since there is minimal value at that point, is usually the worst possible answer, and often results in a later startup failure due to an […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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When Good Legal Advice Is Worth $10 Million An Hour

One of the highest profile liquidity events to date in 2012 is Facebook’s announced deal to acquire Instagram for $1 billion. The popular mobile photo-sharing service should fit well into Facebook’s growth strategy as a soon-to-be-public company, but its eye-popping valuation — more than that of the New York Times, for those keeping score at home — is made more extraordinary by […]

Antone Johnson , Founder and CEO , Bottom Line Law Group

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