This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. 8/31/2010 – Same thing. Our engaging social app-vertisements —games, quizzes and contests— create social brand loyalty.

Software 105

Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You wouldnt believe how many people loose the valuable IP by putting way to much info in their project descriptions. There are lots of people mining the project descriptions looking for something new. The idea is to release a script idea that less than honest people 1. Should be a simple $50 to $100 script.

Web Development 40

Web Development Coder Web Developer 40

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. All Rights Reserved.

LLC 75

LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. All Rights Reserved.

LLC 75

LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

Silicon Valley 332

Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. Pros: The interface makes it easy to browse the site without waiting for people to apply to your posting. Cofoundr This simple forum is intended to help entrepreneurs build teams and solicit advice from a pool of like-minded people.

Coder 60

Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. More About Mashable » Mobile Version News Submit News About Us Advertise Contact Us Privacy Policy © 2010 Mashable. All Rights Reserved.

Angel Investor 84

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. More About Mashable » Mobile Version News Submit News About Us Advertise Contact Us Privacy Policy © 2010 Mashable. All Rights Reserved.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All projects should have a job specification/scope in place including project timescales, a payment schedule and copy write/IP transference. Keeping focus – It is always useful to meet the people you are working with. « Nickpoint Says: May 13, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Reply [.] right, it’s great for that.

RSS 40

RSS Startup Bootstrapping Cofounder 40

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

. “By 2017, global mobile data traffic will continue its truly remarkable growth, increasing 13-fold over the next five years, to reach an amount more than 46 times the total amount of mobile IP traffic just a few years ago in 2010,” says Doug Webster, Vice President of Service Provider Networking Marketing, Cisco.

Mobile 145

Mobile Global Internet Brunei 145

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Descriptive names, such as Stuff White People Like or Blogging Basics 101 , immediately convey information about what you do. People consciously try to create names with unique keywords so theirs will be the only result in targeted Google searches. Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City.

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Available in a.com (though this seems less important recently as people are more creative with names using alternative TLD’s – eg bit.ly, del.icio.us, drop.io, etc). Engage an IP lawyer for more thorough analysis). Also try the company search on Hoovers. So does Afternic Sales Performance.

Naming 45

Naming Startup Technical Review Cofounder 45

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” If you have 8 senior managers in place and I don’t think you’ll need as many people I might accept an option pool of 8% unallocated. Those are the big three.

Pre-Money Valuation 150

Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Post-Money Valuation Dilution 150

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

One of the wisest people I worked with in my career was Ameet Shah. He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Ben's Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Marc and I were known as angel investors, so investing $50M of our new $300M fund in one deal surprised people. Joe Nocera of the New York Times wrote: Many people on Wall Street—and a number of telecommunications experts I spoke to this week—were stunned by the price Skype sold for, and not just because we’re in the middle of a recession.

IP 78

IP Intellectual Property Canada Angel Investor 78

Diego Basch

JULY 30, 2012

Twitter limits API requests from a given IP address to 150 per hour (in practice sometimes less). I had to use a few addresses to fetch all the data over the weekend (tip that came in handy: some mobile carriers refresh your IP every time you go in and out of airplane mode). The average user follows (or is followed by) 51 people.

IP 78

IP API Distribution Naming 78

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Next, Gurdip Singh from Gurgaon, India, discussed a subscription-based managed carpool service that would create groups of four people, each responsible for driving the others to work one week a month. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Next week, we are focusing on entrepreneurs in Latin and Central America.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Most people start their first company while they still have a day job. I’ve been on both sides of the table: I’ve done a startup while working and I’ve employed people who either were or are very capable of having their own startup on the side. This story originally appeared on his blog.) however you are correct.

Software Review 41

Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

During the first week of class, students form teams (optimally 4 people in a team but we’re flexible.) Why will people want it? For non-web teams: Interview 10-15 people in your channel (salesmen, OEM’s, etc.). How many people? Any IP you need to license? How’s the Class Organized? How does it differ from an idea?

Wiki 311

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

So often when people talk about businesses and startups, there is a great deal of high level talk about strategy, broad vision, and so forth. I think we thought that the good product guys could get away with it because the detail of good customer service was unimportant with strong IP. "God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe.

Wisconsin 68

Wisconsin Architecture Startup IP 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Thats sensible advice; most people who have made a business on Facebook rely on the viral driver of growth. Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Social Network Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

If they have protectable IP, their growth should accelerate. Often people work these backwards. If they have protectable IP, their growth should accelerate. Often people work these backwards. October 2010. September 2010. If the end goal is to sell the company, who will buy it at 1% and declining?

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Marketing Business Model IP 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Beyond Verbal (2012) – understands people’s moods, attitudes and emotional characteristics (also known as personality) from their raw vocal intonations in real-time, as they speak. Windward (2010) – maritime data and analytics company. Raised $8M in series B in September 2016. the company raised a strong $3.3M

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business. People flooded the comments with ideas. A name that our community helped choose and really reflects the people who use the site today!

Naming 97

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

Web 111

Web Design Social Media Software Review 111

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

Web 111

Web Design Social Media PHP 111

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Many companies like Sears, Coca-Cola, and Twitter have already been hurt by people using company names they don’t own on social sites.

Intellectual Property 259

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Startup 259

K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

I didn’t know Ren personally, but I certainly knew him by reputation — as one of the smartest people around. He had a knack for always asking the most insightful (and sometimes pointed) questions to people giving talks at the Graphics Lab. In May 2010, Refocus Imaging closed a Series B round of funding led by NEA.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review IP New York Portfolio 134

Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

Vertical 149

Vertical Silicon Valley Intellectual Property RSS 149

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Many companies like Sears, Coca-Cola, and Twitter have already been hurt by people using company names they don’t own on social sites.

Intellectual Property 237

Intellectual Property Social Media Non-disclosure Agreement Media 237

ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

And while making incremental changes to your forms can boost conversion rates in the short-term, what happens when there’s a fundamental shift in the way people prefer to buy? And that same change is affecting how people want to buy and communicate with businesses. reducing the number of fields ). A Shift in How We Communicate.

Lead Generation 91

Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. Still, it is recommended that you add the familiar ©Copyright 2010 symbol at the beginning or end of each media and document segment. Business Plan.

Intellectual Property 125

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP United States 125

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. People won’t follow unless you lead. Most people are afraid of embarrassing themselves, so they keep quiet, especially around successful, important people who could help them. That is what gets people excited. No one funded us. Don’t.

Founder 51

Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. At times it was human resources with policies that made people leave rather than stay, or it was a CIO more interested in standards than deployment. The best people in the “sharp end&# organizations simply vote with their feet and leave.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California 126

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. The IMA expects the companies to have more than 4,000 meetings during the conference.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109