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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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 21, 2016

Indeed, this lesson stuck with me – and it applies regardless of the size of the acquisition. SONY’S ACQUISITION OF CBS RECORDS. The first significant deal to which I was assigned as a junior corporate associate was representing Sony in connection with its acquisition of CBS Records for $2 billion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAmVCkSmhA.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

Waze is the $1 billion-plus acquisition that people, well, forgot about despite its size and growth. You should read it all but let me share a specific paragraph here: I took the acquisition as a personal challenge. We made acquisitions. As Bardin says , “I am confident that the Waze acquisition was a success.

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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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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. 2 License Your Product.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Whether the information is trade secrets, business know-how, financial data, product plans, customer acquisition strategies, the information a business possesses is what makes it valuable and unique. Set forth below are four areas where businesses should utilize contracts when dealing with third parties: Exchanging Information.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. (We’ll cover “ corporate moonshots ” in a subsequent post.). W hat would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

When pitching a new client, I think it always comes down to trust,” says Graham Anthony, the principal and founder of Anthony Advisors, a mergers and acquisitions consultancy based in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Do Do they have the ability to do a good job? Gupta & Jones never disappointed.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). The deal is typically structured as an asset purchase (as opposed to a stock purchase or merger) — though the acquirer often does not actually want the startup’s IP and/or other assets.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When pitching a new client, I think it always comes down to trust,” says Graham Anthony, the principal and founder of Anthony Advisors, a mergers and acquisitions consultancy based in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Do Do they have the ability to do a good job? Gupta & Jones never disappointed.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. Up until now, this service has only been available in California, but LawPivot announces today that it's opening availability nationwide. LawPivot's co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. LawPivot aims to ease some of the obstacles - financial, but also logistical - that make finding a lawyer so difficult. The co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers.

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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. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology. Companies like that tend to be great M&A (merger and acquisition) targets, as you cannot repeat it by throwing money or a team as it’ll take time. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Common examples include papering founders’ stock issuances, catching up on Board minutes, and ensuring that all members of the team have entered into IP agreements with the company assigning rights in their work to the startup. merger or acquisition).

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