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Building your Board Team
Introduction For any team event in sports the selection of people to work together is absolutely critical and the same applies in business when you start a new venture. Get it right and you will have a much better chance of a success and funding, get it wrong and you will really struggle regardless of how great the business is. This article is directed at start-ups but most of the the principles apply to any size of company. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this article, or would like some guidance on your own business please contact us for an informal conversation. Composition Firstly, don’t give…
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Top 10 strategic trends for 2015
Introduction Gartner recently published it’s top 10 strategic trends for 2015. We have taken these and summarised a bit to help you understand the key elements. These strategic focus areas also complement our earlier forecast article so please read both together. Computing Everywhere Despite some initial reservations the rate of adoption for wearable devices such as smart watches and connected devices such as consumer electronics and screens will accelerate. The Internet of Things Digitizing everything will create four basic usage models — Manage, Monetize, Operate and Extend. 3D Printing Worldwide shipments of 3D printers will grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016. 3D…
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Intellectual Property Rights
Introduction One of the most complex topics that any business is going to encounter relates to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Its very easy to overlook how important getting this right is, particularly for start-ups and all businesses with unique products. This article provides a very brief overview of Copyright, Trademark and Patents and if you are interested please contact us for more information. Copyright Computer programs and other types of software are considered as literary works for copyright purposes. Therefore they receive automatic protection without the need for registration and can apply the © symbol on their products and services Copyright is automatic and subject to the Berne Convention in 168…