Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. Independent Third Parties: This area for securing business loans has witnessed the greatest degree of change, primarily due to removal of communication barriers using the Internet.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA 76

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a great resource to help you learn more about intellectual property. Usually royalties fall somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent of the net profit. That airplane thousands of miles above you. The memory foam pillow on your bed. The headache pills. The toothbrush.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 6, 2017

This motivation model is the intellectual property of BEYOND REASON. The internet is full of uncertainty and so brands that communicate longevity and stability have an advantage over sites that are unknown and lack credibility. When the difference is sufficiently large and a net positive, we will be open to purchasing a product.

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Sales Marketing Cuba Intellectual Property 86

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. Net, the author wants to insult entrepreneurs and doesnt understand what a really good idea actually is. -- Vivtek 215 days ago | link. You desperately need real feedback Yup, insult the entrepreneur again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Then came back as a sort of a young intellectual property attorney, working for a wonderful firm here in town. I was not in a city center, and so things like internet and reliable vehicles, all of those things were hard to come by at first. I do not have a safety net. It was the place where I can do the most good.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Deep Learning /Neural Nets – a subfield of machine learning. Neural nets are effective at a variety of tasks ( e.g., image classification, speech recognition). A deep learning neural net algorithm is given massive volumes of data, and a task to perform – such as classification. Dedicated chips for neutral nets (e.g.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. billion net profit. billion, of which $2.5

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! hmmm- Amazon S3=?

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