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

David Cohen

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Or even working for one?

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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. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

He joined Oversee in 2006 as Executive Vice President respon sible for DomainSponsor, the company’s industry-leading traffic monetization business. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way. What’s the best way to localize results?

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Most NDAs I have seen are very one-sided and have unreasonable time limits, which in the tech sector are sometimes moot. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

“Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. QUALCOMM BUYS MOBILE WEB COMPANY ISKOOT.