What separates the winners from the losers? Good question, right? In the game of company-building, what separates the wheat from the chaff? I've worked with services-based and products-based companies, and the same principles of success apply. The winners always have a strategy, and the losers usually don't.

Technology companies worried about protecting company IP due to cost can breathe a sigh of relief. Sci-tech companies don’t always need to rely on expensive utility patents to protect company intellectual property. In many instances, trademarks, trade secrets, design patents, trade dress protection, and copyright registrations can be useful as well in protecting a company's competitive advantage.

Please join me for a podcast with the Arkansas World Trade Center's Sam Cushman and Denise Thomas, as I discuss my Bodacious series and Legal Secret No. 3- Protect Your Investors.