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

David Cohen

In 2001, the towers were hit. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Or even working for one?

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle.

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

David Teten

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Double-down on great people, process & IP. Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

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. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it’s easy to stand against something.

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