Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
In 2001, the towers were hit. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. Or even working for one? You must be nuts. Sudden change. It changed everything overnight. Nobody saw it coming. Sudden change. I started more new companies.
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David Teten
MAY 16, 2011
Chernesky was Cofounder, President and Chief Operating Officer of IPotential, where he brokered patent sales transactions, developed and managed patent licensing programs and completed complex IP consulting projects.
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. 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.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines.
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