David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. We spent a total of $140,000 on our first accelerator program for ten companies. Each company in those early accelerator programs got just $18,000. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. Starting a tech company after this?
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.
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View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . Probably the most common critique of corporate VC programs is that comparatively few endure across decades.
David Teten
MAY 16, 2011
I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Wednesday, May 25, 2011.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
From time immemorial, or at least since programming became a profession, the creation of software has been a magical journey. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. Double-down on great people, process & IP.
dashes.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Years ago, Six Apart invited me to be a part of some kind of developers program without telling me what it is. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated. Jay Smooth.
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