A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. It wasn’t true for me either.

Customer 231

Customer Software Review IP Technical Review 231

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. Ideation/IP. Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Equity 315

Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. 4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock. 4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

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. More complicated enterprise software applications are a good example of that. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. Some take a day to explain.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. ITA Software.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless. I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. I remember calling up my best friend to tell her I was starting a company but refused to tell her how the product would work. So I should be very secretive.

Stealth 90

Stealth NDA Startup IP 90