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Super-helpful article from Upcounsel: Trademark Class 25: Everything You Need to Know
Trademarks apply to: Business names, Slogans, Phrases, Logos
“The [Trademark] Class must represent your product or service in its final version. The trademark class shouldn’t reflect the product’s ingredients or the way you’re planning to market it.”
Keeping this in mind as I register a Trademark for Every Floor Is A Dance Floor™
Kickstarter There’s a section called “Creator Handbook” and a sub-section called “Your Story” that looks über-helpful. 4-Hour Workweek And an in-depth article on Tim Ferris’s blog: Hacking Kickstarter: How to Raise $100,000 in 10 Days (Includes Successful Templates, E-mails, etc.) Important directions from Kickstarter: Just keep your project focused, with a clear end goal, and you’ll be…
Big congrats to Lindy Hobbs and Danny Castillo from P2O Hot Pilates & Fitness on raising $9,726 (exceeding their $7,500 goal) during their first annual fundraiser for Make-A-Wish foundation of Northeastern California and Northern Nevada for 5-year-old Bryant. Bryant’s wish is to be a Ninja, who saves the city from bad guys. P2O Hot Pilates will continue…
The last sentence in this LA Times article “UC Davis spends $175,000 to sanitize its online image after ugly pepper spray episode“ reads: “It’s very important to manage a reputation, and people often don’t realize that,” Kalb said. “So many companies have been seriously damaged for not having a strategy for handling this.” There’s nothing…
GaryVee: “But if I said, ‘Cool, I got money for you, what are you selling me? Like, what’s the business?’ What I would say is, ‘What’s the container I’m putting my money in? What’s the vessel? What am I investing in?’” Share this post: Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on Reddit Share…
No matter how much time, effort, talent, training, materials go into creating a piece of artwork, the artist never decides the value of their art. That’s up to the customer. It’s the customer who decides to spend 60 million dollars or 6 dollars. Or nothing. Share this post: Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter)…
Rocketship.fm interviews with my brother, Lance Walley, CEO of Chargify.com Lance Walley of Chargify (Part 1): Pioneering the Rails Community with Engine Yard (Episode length 28:12) Michael Sacca and Joelle Goldman talk to Lance about the early days of Engine Yard, pioneering the RoR movement, and lessons learned about hiring friends. Lance Walley of Chargify (Part 2): Navigating…
