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  • patent for game mechanics
    特許 Is it possible to get a patent for the mechanics of a game? This would be for the inner workings of our gaming app and to protect us from copycats....
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  • Should we register the trademark or copyright for our app?
    商標 Hi! We have just finished creating our first app. It's a social network and should mainly be used by users in the US and Canada. Once it comes out ...
    回答: 2 閲覧: 1460 いいね: 4 カナダ
  • How do I raise funds before I have a patent?
    特許 I have been working on a new type of Virtual Reality (VR) device. I have been able to build a basic prototype, but some of the more essential featu...
    回答: 1 閲覧: 1439 いいね: 1 アメリカ合衆国
  • Is it important which country an Angel investment is coming from?
    資金調達 There are several potential angel investors that are not based in the US. Is this important or is there something we should be looking out for in t...
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  • When do we need a CFO?
    ビジネスオペレーション Should a startup have a CFO on the team from the very beginning? What about seed, series A/B stages?
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  • Hiring an individual contractor vs. s-corp
    雇用 We are a c-corp startup about to hire an individual contract developer, who would like to enter into the agreement and get paid as a s-corp, rather...
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  • Does it pay to get a patent?
    特許 A friend tells me that technology patents are not really useful for web-based startup companies. Either the patent office doesn't grant patents for...
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  • I want to sell my company but my co-founder is against it. What should I do?
    ビジネスストラテジー We have an offer by a larger software company to buy our business, but my co-founder thinks we shouldn't sell and keep running the company ourselve...
    回答: 2 閲覧: 1261 いいね: 4 アメリカ合衆国
  • Can it happen that we don't own the IP rights to our code?
    著作権 Our three developers create the code that is the foundation of our web app. There is also a UX/UI designer. Can it theoretically happen that we don...
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  • Why shouldn't we simply keep our technology secret?
    特許 It seems like obtaining, maintaining and defending a patent for our technology would be costly and time consuming. Yet we are told that early appli...
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