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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Nudging has plenty of different definitions. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Welcome to Nudging. Nudge, nudge!

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Geography (i.e. Or do they satisfy a range of potential intents? The lesson?

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly almost be definition you should be scratching your head. Over the past 2.5

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. But in an account-based marketing thing, you might even want to throw up some things like Demandbase on the high end to LeadLander on the low end that do help you resolve IP addresses into companies, so you know which companies hit your website. Lead scoring is complicated.

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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

You wouldnt believe how many people loose the valuable IP by putting way to much info in their project descriptions. I know that software of this type will always be difficult to maintain when the web sites it uses change their setups and suffer downtime, but the problems I experienced were definitely not in the most part from that source.

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As a Human, I’m Excited About AI. As an Investor, I’m Still Wrestling With a Few Questions

Hunter Walker

Companies such as Shield.ai , Kettle , and MasterfulAI , among many others, were Homebrew investments which fit this definition. But it’s also clear we’re at a new inflection point where our previous hypotheses needed to be updated.