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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) What are your key Startup Metrics ? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? Do you rely on affiliates?

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Esports and Money in 2020

VC Cafe

They own the IP. They are not necessarily Esports athletes or affiliated to a team. We at Remagine Ventures continue to look for the top teams building ambitious startups in gaming, Esports and the Metaverse. They sell the game. Anything having to do with the games has to go through them.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Personal information, like sexual orientation, racial information, medical records, health and gene information, and political affiliations and opinions. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Banking and credit card information. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Everyone wants to work in tech startups. Competitions : YHack , Yale Venture Challenge , $25K Entrepreneurship Prize , Venture Clash at Yale SOM ; NYU vs. Yale Pitch Event; Yale vs Harvard Pitch Event, Startup Yale. See Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups. Everyone wanted to work in finance.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Good idea, I think this will benefit lots of startups and some angels. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. Ted: Great service to the startup community! I hope similar initiatives existed for startups in India.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. Any IP you need to license? How many people?