VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

We are in the experimentation stage, where brands, IP, communities, are testing the waters for relevancy, connection with the younger fans, and new income potential. Toya partners with IP holders to create engaging experiences, like Miraculous Ladybug Role Play, which has just won the Best Alternative Game 2022 by Kidscreen.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Anyone who does IP law in Southern California seems to use Knobbe Martens.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. We looked at the IP and realized it was highly differentiated / hard to replicate.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. He is author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog and a frequent speaker at industry events.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to. Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP United States 174

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. ” I highly recommend reading it. Profitability. The answer is more complex than just Gross vs. Net Burn.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

You don’t even need your own Twitter account and Facebook page and WordPress blog because your customers will spread the love for you. The IP attorneys would say that we’re bleeding assets, but what we’re actually doing is earning the respect, attention, and sometimes even love from the entire WordPress community.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

” After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox [Alex Barasch/NewYorker] – Came out before the movie opened, so the insider account of how the IP negotiations occurred is even more astounding as box office approaches $1B.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Inworld AI – readers of this blog would have already heard about Dall-E, the AI for creating stunning visual art from text input. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). Ready Player Me avatars ( source ). Bored Ape M&Ms.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

It's something that trademarked IP that I call the marketing hourglass. We still use blog or content management system technology, but we don't use it in the, in the sort of fa linear, chronological fashion that people come to think about blogs on. Meaning like, give me a thousand word blog post. It's pretty cool.

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Marketing ChatGPT Framework Technical Review 82

Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. Since this is not a blog about legal issues (and I'm not a lawyer!) But information like IP address, browser user agent id, time stamps, page urls and much more are recorded in web logs. All other data should be fine.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. If you’re interested in that discussion, my advisor and mentor, Brad Feld has written extensively about software patents on his blog.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

It’s been a year since I’ve been blogging. One of the downsides to a large number of blog posts is that older stories tend to get buried and hidden. These blogs began as an attempt to explain why a “book” I wrote wasn’t a book. The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy………… 65. Recursive History.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As Phil Harrison, a real veteran of the gaming industry and GM of Stadia wrote on the official blog post: For many years, Google has invested across multiple aspects of the gaming industry. Microsoft spent billions acquiring IP (most recently Activision if the regulator approves the deal), but also Bethesda Games, Minecraft and others.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

In a post on the Roblox blog Roblox’ CTO Daniel Sturman said: Today, Roblox provides creators with a platform that enables end-to-end tools, services, and support to help them build the most immersive 3D experiences. “It Also, it’s hard to change habits in existing workflows IP concerns (who owns it? is it protectable?)

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Feed Blog. 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business. Jason Evanish's blog. | Blog Categories. Skip to Navigation. >.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Startup 259

Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2020

There could also be the consequence of IP theft, loss of company privacy or the loss of customer privacy. If the board director or employee leaves the company, it would be very difficult to retake ownership of the accounts that actually belong to the company.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Yes, that additional $6 mil is not as hard to accomplished for an imaginative focused team – in fact you can get that from implementing half of the recommendations in this blog post. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. In-stock status. Personalization.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This is my personal blog. My professional blog is. If youve read my Cult of the NDA article (which, by the way, remains one of the most-read articles on this blog), then you know that I think good luck and good execution are far more important to success in a startup than a Really Big Idea. Browse archives by date. Categories.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Reply Bowling Balls , on June 21, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. Blog at WordPress.com.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Or you plan to start your own blog. That photo you took from Google thinking it was okay to upload on your blog? How about a photoshoot you spent hours on, only to find out that someone has snatched it to use on their own blog? You don’t want someone grabbing something from your blog and use it for their website.

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Andrew Payne

AUGUST 3, 2011

If you’re one of the five people that read this blog, you know I’ve become negative on many pure-software/Internet/mobile entrepreneurial projects. There are a number of ways (this is the first in an ad-hoc series of blog posts). So, how do entrepreneurs avoid the lottery?

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Software Review IP Technical Review Database 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. You can verify the real Googlebot for your site.).

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2017

Content marketing has all but replaced traditional marketing, making branded blogs a necessary element of any business strategy. With that in mind, here are the WordPress plugins you can use to fully optimize your blog for user experience and lead generation. If you’ve ever had to do this, you already know it is quite a chore.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

My business doesn’t have IP. 100% of businesses have Intellectual Property (IP). IP is not just for tech businesses or inventors. Even if you simply decide to launch a crowdfunding campaign, you’re exposing your IP to risk. In fact, over 90 percent of a startups’ value can be made up of IP. Do you own it?

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP NDA 123

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2020

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. El Toro : Reshaping online and digital advertising through the patented approach of matching a physical address to an IP address. Weekend Favs June 20 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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IP Matching Advertising Email 83

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In order to protect your business’s IP, learn the four different categories. Yes, your business has intellectual property (IP). In fact, 100 percent of businesses have IP. Your email list, logo, sales process, and even your website domain are parts of your IP. Three reasons to learn more about IP: 1.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Design 112

Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Monopoly markets and IP protected innovations being rare exceptions). The new margin gets competed away. Competitors respond and also reduce price to maintain market share either by adopting similar technology or cutting margins. Car prices are a good example. In the past 30 years due to automation prices have dropped radically.

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IP Technical Review Australia Distribution 48

K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

Most people who read this blog already know my thoughts on, and my support for the #StartupVisa.). We talked about several markets — security, defense, professional (DSLRs), consumer (Point-and-Shoots), mobile (cell phones), IP licensing, lens adapters, etc. It was a wide wide landscape and a rather daunting one.

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Technical Review IP New York Portfolio 134

ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2016

Is the office IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of your affiliates filtered out (agencies, freelancers, etc.)? Is your home IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of remote employees filtered out? Are you doing country filtering? Is your default page and time zone configured properly? Filter Creation.

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Analytics Software Review eCommerce PPC 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

Kehalim’s Express Affiliate Links widget automatically puts affiliate codes on the blog links, without impacting the user experience. Wibiya , the customizable web toolbar for publishers added a monetization widget through affiliate links provided by Kehalim , a contextual affiliate platform based in Israel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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