Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

The reality is lots of companies – many of them quite promising – have already undergone, or will be facing, next financings which “clean up” old cap tables. Soft Acquisition Market. And fascinating new advances (and needs) in AI, climate, biology, etc are driving tech-IP driven startups.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Block sketchy IP addresses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. Well, we spend upwards of 90% of our brain cycles and companies focusing on finances and operations, right? And so we need to have our people digging down, looking at what's going on in terms of our finances and operations, for sure.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. However, many banking institutions refuse to finance small business operations because of their risk profile. Wrapping Up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Venture Financing.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We had a busy 2018, including closing several significant M&A transactions and financings. An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). What is an Acquihire? How is the Deal Structured? What Legal Documents are Utilized?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. Consumer apps and services. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. D-Logic Inc.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Any IP you need to license? Include people, hardware, software, prototypes, financing, etc. Did you learn anything different? How many people?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s also imperative to conduct regular audits of your IP assets and keep them up-to-date. Drafting a robust IP strategy with legal counsel at an early stage will help prevent problems down the road while setting clear expectations for employees about appropriate behavior regarding confidential information & data sharing practices.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Startup 125

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. From the link: Oh, and what was the company?

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As we conclude our convertible note financing series, there are assorted terms commonly seen in term sheets and deal documents that are worth touching on briefly. The Note Purchase Agreement and Convertible Promissory Note are essential documents for any convertible note financing. merger or acquisition).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

I concluded that this dynamic, which allowed a startup to take multiple “shots on goal” with a venture capital investment, was what had brought renewed investor interest to gaming, an industry that had largely been financed by publishing deals. Borrowing IP from another media. Paid acquisition.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - 500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? (..)

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. I can’t offer any amazing technology or IP, but I can solve a few problems by just doing it “right”, and not the way it’s being forced on people right now. Other sources of capital. So build a strong base.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. Or is it? That’s a nice way of putting it.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

at 3:35 pm @Seb G You point reminds me of something a friend had said when he was talking about his brother who is an attorney that specializes in tech ip. many startups think that they can start any type of business without planning their finances carefully before hand. 24 Greg on 01.08.09 25 Ezra on 01.08.09 44 Steve P on 01.14.09

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. great web customer acquisition tutorials. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point.

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