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  • IP & Your Employees

    With careful planning and implementation you can hire employees who will make major contributions to your business while creating and protecting intellectual property that will be essential to your company.

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  • IP Licensing

    If your company is like most companies, fortunately, most of your IP activity will be in the realm of licensing, not litigation. You’ll need to pay attention to business, technology, and legal considerations.

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  • IP Protection & Avoiding Infringement

    You’ve got an intellectual property strategy, and you’ve been following it diligently. Now you have to decide what to protect and how to protect it. Also, avoiding infringing the IP of others is a sound investment for your company. An IP dispute can be time-consuming, expensive, and distracting. It is something you want to avoid.

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  • Patents

    If patents are part of your IP strategy, focus your patent budget on inventions that your development team believes will be technically achievable, that patent counsel tells you appear on preliminary review likely to be patentable, and that you believe will be commercially well received by the marketplace.

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  • Trade Secrets

    A trade secret can be any commercially important information, but you need robust procedures in place to protect your trade secrets.

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  • Your First Meeting with an Angel Investor

    A common mistake entrepreneurs make when they first meet an investor is talking too much. A real conversation and dialogue is much more effective.

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  • Financing Your Venture: Venture Capital

    Jeff Bussgang, entrepreneur and venture capitalist with Flybridge Capital Partners, offers advice on how to stand out to an investor and what to watch out for when negotiating the final deal.

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  • Exiting the Company

    Venture capitalists care a lot about the exit because they have investors as well, but they might not always care which way it occurs. Typically, exits can occur in two ways: mergers and acquisitions or IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). As an entrepreneur, make sure you have an idea of how you’d like to see an exit take place.

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  • Finding and Approaching a VC

    Venture capital firms typically segment across three dimensions—sector, stage and size. Match with venture firms that know your industry, invest in your stage of business and can invest at the level you are seeking.

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