Authors: Matthew Wahlrab and Craig Rochester For founders who’ve developed a groundbreaking idea or technology, the next major challenge is successfully bringing the concept to the market. When seeking guidance on how and where to start, however, they’re pretty often met with vague, non-practical responses: “You need to find your product-market fit.” Sure, you […]
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Authors: Matthew Wahlrab and Craig Rochester Expanding what IP is in business in 2022 Intellectual Property (IP) often brings to mind images of high-tech enterprise laboratories, heavyweight legal teams, and significant capital investment. But any company that’s up and running has some form of IP that can be valuable to its bottom line. Your company
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Authors: Matthew Wahlrab and Craig Rochester What is a viral startup? Viral startups are early-stage companies that attract a significant network of early users for market validation and product/market fit feedback.They’re often also proactive in establishing intellectual property (IP) assets and an IP strategy that create barriers to entry against competitors in important markets and
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Authors: Matthew Wahlrab and Craig Rochester Founders of companies face many obstacles when transitioning from a spark of an idea, to finding market fit and scaling, to exiting. Intellectual property (IP) management documents aspects of the business that drive growth and, when done well, provides a foundation for scaling that doesn’t require rethinking the business at
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Through an Agreement announced today, Rapid Alpha will receive an exclusive right to distribute the VentureCast web application in core markets of the company. The pairing of VentureCast’s web application and Rapid Alpha’s suite of IP Management, Corporate Development and Business Intelligence, and Go to Market Services creates a comprehensive solution to help innovators identify
Authors: Matthew Wahlrab and Craig Rochester Companies’ intellectual property (IP) needs depend in large part on their growth stage. For pre-seed and seed stage startups, their focus is on securing funding and accelerating product development. Ready to conquer the world with their MVP and perhaps early traction, each startup begins to face the “good problems
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Authors: Matthew Wahlrab and Craig Rochester Case Study IP planning tailored to business and investor needs — while saving time & money. Subscribe to our newsletter Our client: Lexset, revolutionizing AI training with synthetic data AI is a major factor in the future of computer vision — and for effective AI training, vast data sets
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Marketing Plan Checklist Is your product-market fit not panning out? Perhaps it is time to go back to the drawing board and rethink your marketing plan. Check out this blog for a checklist to develop a winning marketing plan: create a value proposition canvas for what your product means to prospective clients. It is important
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There are several reasons startup companies struggle to meet the revenue goals promised to Series A investors. Let’s talk about the most important one: failing to transition from individual high-touch sales to scalable and sustainable business development and sales processes. This often involves failing to develop a scalable process to test product-market fit and not
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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,
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