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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. . The round was heavily oversubscribed so the founders could choose their investment partners, but the founders decided to include NVIDIA a strategic investor.

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

David Teten

Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures collaborates with leading inventors, partners with pioneering companies and invests both expertise and capital in the process of invention. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr. Chernesky held management positions at Intel in areas such as intellectual property licensing and business development.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Jay Smooth. Kenyatta Cheese. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. I lived through this again September 2001. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. Yes, this was stupid.

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

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. 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. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm. What did we do?

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