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8 Myths Technologists Believe That Sink Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. Patents can apply to innovative user interfaces, processes or a new technology algorithm.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach). This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

It was a team of two sharp Computer Science PhDs, they had core new technology in the form of the algorithms they ran in the back-end, and also core new technology when it came to the display of information. In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach). This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Gust

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach). This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Find “comparables” who have received financing (market approach). This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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The SME Instrument: How Innovative Startups Can Receive EU Funding?

Transformify

Powerful matching algorithms are used to allocate the projects and ensure a stringent and high-quality evaluation process. What is your intellectual property policy? If your finance team has experience with writing business plans and VC pitch decks, you may go with a high-level guidance and advice. Not necessarily.