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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

When I negotiated crowdSPRING’s initial contract for internet and IP phone service, we had a few important deal terms (price, reliability, redundancy) and I made those terms very clear in the beginning.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. A major reason for incorporating is to have the founders assign their IP to the company; it is far easier for a business to contract with a startup when the IP is owned by one entity. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship. If high U.S.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. .

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

Both Sides of the Table

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly I thought this was a good time to reflect on some lessons of the past 10 years. Over the past 2.5

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. ” Eric Feng. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency. Monthly payouts on Patreon.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses. Diagnostics. You can see the entire presentation here.

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