Emerging Companies Perkins Coie, LLP Developing a solid intellectual property ("IP") strategy is essential for emerging companies preparing for market entrance. A sharp understanding and tactical plan for protecting your IP is critical not only before you start, but also during the lifespan of the company. Good "IP hygiene" demands that IP is protected from the start of your enterprise. What “Disrupt” Really Means Editor’s note: Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, an SEC-registered online financial advisor. Prior to Wealthfront, Andy co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital. Follow him on Twitter @arachleff. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really means.
9 Proven Business Models to Consider for Your Startup The business model is at the core of any successful startup, because no matter how cool an idea is or how unique something may seem, a startup must have a viable way of making money that is worthy enough for future investment and to sustain itself. Many new startup founders throw around the term “business model” when discussing and planning strategies for their venture. Questions like “What business model works best with my idea?” Startup Lessons from Election Day 2012 After billions of dollars spent on ads, gigabytes of campaign emails and countless hours of productivity put into Nate Silver's polling blog, Election Day is finally here. But don't despair, entrepreneurs – there are plenty of lessons that your startup can take from the campaign trail. 1. “Strategery.” You can't predict the future but you can (and should) be as calculating as possible.
6 Great Business Models to Consider for a Startup People often throw around the term business model in discussing startups. But just what is a business model? Which ones work best and why? 50-50 "Partnerships" Only Work in Fairy Tales One of the most common conversations I have with the founders of businesses involves how they determined a way to split the ownership amongst themselves. It is probably the first difficult decision new partners face together in starting a company. In many instances, the new founders decide that they are going to split ownership equally. If there are several founders, this may work out inadvertently. In other instances, the founders haven't even considered who should own what percentage of the company and statutorily, by default, ownership will be pro rata by the number of owners.
[Case Study] How Hawkers Uses Shopify Plus to Disrupt the Sunglasses I Visit the shop It was the summer of 2013, and Hawkers had a problem. Thousands of their sunglasses, imported from the US, were tied up in customs at Madrid. StartUp Guru Blog About: Brian Tsuchiya Click on the picture below to find Brian’s full bio. Brian has been an entrepreneur for twenty years. During this time he has worked with, met, read about and studied thousands of entrepreneurs. This experience combined with his own inner journey and assessment created the fertile ground to discover both the four archetypes of entrepreneurs and the four stages of business evolution. In addition to coaching and mentoring select entrepreneurs Brian is leading the research team and writing his first book. Reinventing the Consulting Business Model The traditional consulting business model is based on two principle ideas: (1) hiring people (top talent if possible) and (2) charging clients a fee per hour or day for gaining access to this talent, its expertise and/or manpower. Depending on the type of consulting or the brand, the pendulum swings more towards focusing on providing, and buying on the customer side, the more sophisticated expertise or the simpler manpower. While the bulk of the consulting industry functions according to these basic principles, new business models have been successfully launched in recent years, just like the rise of freelance consulting which pro-vogue individuals to learn top Tips to Start a Successful Freelance Consulting Business, often creating superior value for customers, the firms themselves and the ecosystem they are embedded in (for more on these 3 types of value propositions, see Take your Business Model to the Next Level). From hiring a team to offering flexible access to top talent
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