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How to get a job in Venture Capital

Jason Ball

I wrote a post about it back in 2006 on the topic that I could point people to, but it looks a little light, so I thought I’d post an update. 3) Work in the industry - Accelerators, PR, HR, Design, IP – whatever. I get asked this question a *lot*. Bonus points if you’re a ninja in your field of expertise.

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

David Teten

He joined Oversee in 2006 as Executive Vice President respon sible for DomainSponsor, the company’s industry-leading traffic monetization business. Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures collaborates with leading inventors, partners with pioneering companies and invests both expertise and capital in the process of invention.

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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. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey. Maura Johnston. Natalie Podrazik.

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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. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. You need your key negotiating partner and both sets of lawyers. Yes, this was stupid.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter February 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Exanet, which was founded in 2000, provides scalable network-attached storage software solutions to OEM partners.

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