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IP Ownership for Startups — Who Owns What and How to Fix It

Explains who owns the intellectual property in a startup (the company, the founder personally, a developer's employer, or a university) and what documents are needed to ensure the company owns everything an investor will expect it to own. Identifies the most common IP ownership gaps and explains how to fix them. Use when founders have part-time developers, offshore contractors, co-founders who work for other companies, or technology that originated at a university.

What this skill walks you through

1. IP Ownership for Startups — Who Owns What and How to Fix It
2. Purpose
3. Trigger Phrases
4. "Do I own the code my contractor built?"
5. "My developer is overseas and hasn't signed anything — is that a problem?"
6. "One of my co-founders still works full-time at a big tech company — do we have an IP issue?"
7. "I built this while doing my PhD — does the university own it?"
8. "What IP documents do I need before raising a seed round?"

Sourced from IP Ownership for Startups — Who Owns What and How to Fix It by Conversational Creation.

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