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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). All opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Gust.

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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Don’t get us wrong, Nokia was one of the first innovators in the cellular world, being the first to create a cellular network. Blockbuster is a classic example of how complacent management can lead to a business’s downfall. Let’s dive into these stories. However, the overestimation of their brand value led them into trouble.

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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

Feld Thoughts

I was one of the day one execs of LVLT, as well as an early member of the management team of MFS Communications. Two years prior, ICG was a public company preparing for its second bankruptcy. By the time we sold to Level 3, our total proceeds to equity owners and management were $225M. I didn’t. We paid them $8.7M

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