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Question about business name trademarks

Hello everyone, forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I'm actually confused on this subject. I'm in the planning stages a small passion project business idea of mine and had come up with a business name that had a 3 letter acronym. For example - "My Small Business" = "MSB" Upon doing research I discovered an older company website of another small business which used the same acronym, but obviously had another actual business name. It appears this company is no longer offering their services, but on the website they mentioned they had a trademark on their business name with the USPTO. My question is can I use the same *acronym* with my business and not run into any issues? Thanks

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Everyone says that they don't want it, but it will bring profit and happiness to their employees if they use it

So I am doing a team product for B2B, I've asked 20-30 managers if they are interested, and everyone said "no". But, according to my (although backed by some data, purely hypothetical) calculations, if they use it, they will save... quite a bit of money! Me and my friends have the problem, so it exists, and the problem exists anyway, I've confirmed it. But due to poor feedback, should I ditch the idea, or should I try to word it differently/try to ask more people? Just in case, I am trying to do presales.

Startups timeline

Hi all, I am doing some research on startups timeline. What I mean by startups timeline is: time to take to get market fit or not and once you know that there is a market fit, and then to build … to scale … …. Exit … I assume you already validated the idea with some users but not at scale. So, from: IDEA- to - MVP: MVP - to - Product Market Fit: Product Market FIT - to - Build the Product: Build product - to scale: … I know that there are product iteration, user feedback, maybe product pivot, big team, or solo or small team, bootstrap or funded For me: IDEA- to - MVP: 1 - 6 month MVP - to - Product Market Fit: 6 months - 2 years Product Market FIT - to - Build the Product: 2 years - 4 years Build product - to scale: 4 years to 10 years

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How should one go about funding?

I am starting up a company that will be eco-friendly and try to change the world for better. I however do not have enough money to do this sort of thing, and I don’t feel comfortable asking for money. So I started a shopify to sell my company logo to hopefully gain more money to use for my start up. Are there better ways to go about doing this? Or should i try getting a co founder that has money?

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SAFE agreement needed - shares for contribution in an early stage startup

Hey all, I am trying to draft an agreement for some people who have given services to myself & the co-founders. What I'd like to do is use a SAFE but all Safe's I have found are geared towards a monetary investment to exchange for future equity. In some cases, I'd like to give a certain % to them but am struggling to modify the safe for that use case. In one case it is a buyout of all services as of a certain date for a premoney % of the company for someone who made some serious tech for us. Anyone have a template for a safe for services rendered type template? Let me know! I'd love to avoid 3 hours legal service at $200 an hour for this!

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What product validation methods have you found most effective?

How do you typically validate your ideas? Do you validate before launching anything or do you use the launch to validate? Do you gather feedback via friends and family? Quantitative surveys? Qualitative surveys? Ethnographic research? Focus group? Send product samples or log in credentials to an interested list? Polls on social media? Would love to hear what has and hasn’t worked for you.

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