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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. I’d like to take a step back and discuss the significance of IP as a component of the overall value that founders intend to create as they grow the company.

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Some Fresh Twitter Stats (as of July 2012, Dataset Included)

Diego Basch

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). For those, the average is 520 tweets. Graph characteristics.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders. The investor may also ask for a participation in which the investors receive some additional multiple of their investment prior to distribution of proceeds to stockholders.

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

While Walmart hasn’t acquired in this area yet, its internal initiatives and IP show interest. Everlane raised seed funding in 2011, but has been revenue-funded since. Allbirds’ expanding appeal, range of products, and distribution channels could attract Walmart. Increase in-store efficiency. Madison Reed.

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IBC 2011 Attracts 28 Israeli Media and Mobile Startups to Amsterdam

VC Cafe

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D. This solution is based on a large variety of satellite beams. justAdTV Ltd - justAd.TV

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. In the year 2011, Lea was leading product for Adobe’s Creative Suite.

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41% Of Attack Traffic Originates From China – Akamai

YoungUpstarts

According to data in the latest State of the Internet Report provided by Akamai Technologies , 56% of all malignant traffic observed by its customers – such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks – originate from the Asia Pacific/Oceania region, with China contributing a full 41%.

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