Open Tech Calendar

For all businesses, intellectual property is increasingly important. Intellectual property can exist in your startup, in your main product, branding and even your customer database.

As a result, it is CRITICAL for Startup Founders to be able to avoid the intellectual property pitfalls that others commonly fall into by making sure that you correctly protect, strengthen and commercialise your intellectual property.

During this free seminar Julie Brown of MMS LLP will:

1 - Highlight the common IP pitfalls Startup Founders face and tell you how to avoid them.

2 - Explain how to identify your intellectual property.

3 - Help you determine whether you actually own that intellectual property

4 - Explain how to be ready for investment.

Julie Brown is an IP Specialist and an Associate in the award winning IP & Technology Team at Maclay Murray & Spens LLP.

She advises all types of clients from startups to plcs and investors on a wide variety of IP, IT and data protection matters including the sale, licensing, commercialisation and protection of intellectual property.

Agenda:

12:00 Event opens

12:10 Introductions/Pitches (practice makes perfect...)

12:20 Good News - what have you achieved or learned recently

12:30 Julie Brown from Maclay Murray and Spens

1:00 Q & A and Group Discussion

1:30 What ideas are you going to take forward?

1:45 Heads-Up on upcoming startup events, parties, opportunities, funding etc

2:00 Networking

2:30 Close

Attendance is limited to 20 Edinburgh entrepreneurs, so if you want to benefit, RSVP ASAP to avoid being disappointed.

This topic was chosen by the group members via this poll

www.meetup.com

This is an exclusive event because its purpose is to bring like-minded people in the Scottish startup community of Founders, Hackers and Entrepreneurs together to empower and inspire each others success with pragmatic discussions and activities inspired by the thinking of the lean startup pioneers Steve Blank, Eric Ries and Ash Maurya.

This experience is different from anything else available in Scotland because not only are we practicing the cutting edge Lean Startup principles but we believe no one is better qualified than entrepreneurs who are personally 'in the growth hacking trenches' to inspire and guide you to success; to recommend resources and answer questions on the most riskiest areas of your startup. Talk to any seasoned entrepreneur and they'll tell you "Don't go it alone; find people you can confide in".

The groups objectives are to:

Learn and apply the most effective Lean Startup principles
Learn from each other's experiences
Develop relationships with like-minded entrepreneurs
Focus on specific startup challenges i.e. validation, traction, funding etc
Tap into each other's knowledge, resources and networks
Set goals and encourage accountability
Enable more business