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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. Steve ]” I launched my first business in 1999, it was a web-based business and the tools available at that time cost us a few hundred thousand dollars just to get started.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

These days there are many lawyers that will do equity deals cheaply as long is it is a standardized, simplified term sheet, early stage, no serious investor / management debates, limited IP / customers / due diligence and as long as they perceive you as a “hot&# company that’s likely to need legal services for many years ahead. (if

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Link Blog: Run Away When a VC Wants to ‘Preempt Your Next Round,’ How Barbie Got Made, Air Jordan Fraud, and More

Hunter Walker

” After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox [Alex Barasch/NewYorker] – Came out before the movie opened, so the insider account of how the IP negotiations occurred is even more astounding as box office approaches $1B.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices. Still, there is a lot to be done with regard to the legal system and the protection of intellectual property ( IP) rights. Russia is the seventh largest internal market in the world and the first in Europe.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. You have a window.

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