Business Model Equity Government IP 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. In return for the lower risk, a venture studio typically takes a larger percentage of equity.
Up and Running
MARCH 12, 2019
The best thing you can do is create an IP protection strategy and document it in a business plan , so you’ve integrated it into your larger business strategy. It’s a way to reduce your business’s risk. Protect your IP with a carefully-crafted contract. IP assignment clause. Start with a contract.
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NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Underpinning this growth is good governance. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward. Creating this value is anchored in finding a repeatable, scalable business model.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
From traditional equity VC, Flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Equity Ownership. Yes, typically preferred equity. On average, founders own just 43% of equity by Series B , declining thereafter. Flexible VC offers you this.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
It doesn’t mean that you should change your business model because one person suggested it, but listed to the feedback and if you see similar patterns over and over again, make changes. Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 15, 2020
It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. I really started to see food and nutrition as hardware.
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