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An introduction to Patents
This article comes from the website of VonSiedels with their permission What is a patent? A patent is a limited monopoly granted by the state to an inventor, or other person entitled to the invention, [...]
Beth Schmidt Founder and Executive Director Wishbone
Beth Schmidt is the founder and Executive Director of Wishbone. Wishbone is a scalable web platform that links at-risk high school students with the online donor community to fund their educational dreams. These opportunities to participate [...]
What to do with all the slips in your wallet?
In our series in financial management, we are talking about Recordkeeping this week. Recordkeeping comes in many different forms; people keep diaries to record their day, people keep a record of the statistics for their [...]
Make your Year End lists
As a team or alone make a list of all the things you have not yet gotten to this year. Time to purge that guilt and get it all on paper for all to see. [...]
Do I have the right to Copywrite or should I Trademark?
Before we get into the meat of this discussion, let’s define what these two entities are: Copywrite and Trademark. Both are forms of intellectual property protection, but each protects different types of assets: A Copywrite [...]
A conversation with Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg are co-authors of their new book ''How Google Works''. Eric is Googles's Executive Chairman and former chief executive officer. He joined the company in 2001, and he has helped Google grow [...]
Failing to plan is planning to fail
As promised last week, this week we discuss Financial Planning, which has another name that we are all more familiar with, a BUDGET. A budget can be any size, for any purpose, from the Finance [...]
Launch of the Innovation Initiative Forum
The Cape Chamber of Commerce invites you to the launch of our Innovation Initiative Forum. Vision To develop and support entrepreneurial businesses with an innovative product or service, from initial idea through to sustainability of [...]