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Finding a strategic partner, investor or buyer

Berkonomics

Some potential buyers or strategic partners might want your intellectual property, or revenues, or profitability, geographic advantage, or sale force, or your employee base. The net result of this exercise. Column two is the golden ticket. What would the candidate want from your company in a transaction?” Think carefully.

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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

Intellectual property stolen, customer data hacked, funds illegally transferred, goods stolen, can damage a company and put them out of business. The analogy of comparing the net with guns might seem stretched, but I think it’s an apt one. As well as a loss of privacy. But for businesses, the threats are even more real.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

Intellectual property stolen, customer data hacked, funds illegally transferred, goods stolen, can damage a company and put them out of business. The analogy of comparing the net with guns might seem stretched, but I think it’s an apt one. As well as a loss of privacy. But for businesses, the threats are even more real.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.