The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. IP Management. For instance startup companies that much need to safeguard their IP ( intellectual property ) for survival and growth. Such companies need VDRs to store related IP-documentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation.

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Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. We found 4 different major groups of startups that all have very different behavior regarding customer acquisition, time, product, market and team. Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 18, 2018

It is defined as an online repository of information for storing and distributing shared documents, and can be used during business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital funding. It should also protect your IP address and your shared documents.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. The program became large enough that it came time to choose between expanding the program or making it more technology focused and closely tied to corporate R&D.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s PMarchetti.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. Is it cheaper for them to design and experiment with their own technology from scratch, or to acquire something existing and proven? Think about a Google or Apple acquisition of Tesla.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory. And crank it out they did.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Inworld AI, takes this type of technology to create game characters using text. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). million (partly thanks to their acquisition of RTFKT), followed by Dolce & Gabbana at $25.7

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Technology-centric businesses. Technology-centric businesses. Flexible VC offers you this.

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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. . Competing businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. But we’re a technology company that produces great video not the other way around. Expect to hear a lot more about Maker technology in the next 18 months. Except for 2 things: 1.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . But even when strategic investors are helpful shareholders to a startup, having that affiliation can complicate potential partnerships, acquisition, or other relationships with a competitor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Gain Grow Retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day. I think about what's social, what's economic, what's technological. From money printing. So, right.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. Technology has both enabled us and added needless complexity to the process. Dave says it best (who ran ABM at Marketo & Bizible).

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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. By leveraging technology, Should I Sign is saving business owners time and money when they have a legal need.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle). Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX.

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? On a HackerNews thread a few years ago he said , “You can do A/B testing via either server-side or client-side technology. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. CRO and SEO: The Perfect Couple?

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SiliconHills

JULY 2, 2012

Ixia, a provider of IP and wireless network test systems, announced today its acquisition of Austin-based BreakingPoint Systems, a security testing firm, for $160 million in cash. The deal gives Ixia the ability to offer its customers IP and wireless monitors, [.].

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Additionally, our products often use new technologies and require people to change their behavior, such as using a camera to talk with their friends. The same can be said of Facebook and its acquisition of Oculus, along with its recent full-frontal assault against Snapchat AR filters and lenses. Amazon has continually laddered up.

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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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Bootstrapping IP Silicon Valley India 113

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

IP Litigation – EA is suing Zynga for copyright infringement , and regardless of the merits this is a headache Zynga will have to deal with and pay to defend itself. That being said, unlike a company that has essentially zero user acquisition costs (e.g. one-time purchase offsetting future leasing expenses).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K. Tools for IP-targeted ads: MRP ; Terminus. ABM opens the door to many types of opportunities.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, held an IP claim against Skype. The shifting technology landscape would tilt the playing field away from Skype. From a technology standpoint, at the time, it was impossible to field a high-quality web client or mobile product, but that time wouldn’t last.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It makes use of sentence and word gesture technology, as well as contextual prediction, touting to save users about 60 percent keystrokes. We are the original inventor of our technology and we are the first one who invented a lot of great features. They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

What unique insight do you have into the market dynamics or into a technological shift that makes this a fresh opportunity? 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?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Startup Accelerators in Austin : Austin Technology Incubator , SKU , Tech Ranch , Techstars Austin and many more. You will most probably get funded if you fulfill the first two points and will move at a max 3 hours flight distance from your VC and your management & IP should be in US, VC does not care about anything else.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. They make touch screen technology. internet technology. a new touch screen technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc.,

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