Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired.

Software Review 381

Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. Debt or convertible securities (e.g.,

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

Google Analytics shows 104 conversions. That includes how each one defines and measures sessions, users, conversions, etc. For example, “conversion rate” in Google Analytics is conversions/sessions, while in VWO and Optimizely it’s conversions/unique visitors. Issue: Google Analytics conversions are duplicated.

Analytics 88

Analytics IP Metrics Conversion 88

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. But if you can stomach that he’s a star and contingency work / risk sharing on IP claims is key! Disclosure: he’s my cousin.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We have filed patents covering the scientific ecosystem and blockchain integrations into the system.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Instead of looking at traditional metrics such as EBITA (earnings before interest taxes and amortization) and MRR (monthly recurring revenue), early investors are compelled by intangibles such as charismatic leadership, a loyal team, exciting IP, an important name on an executive board, news coverage, etc. Fundraising debt.

Cofounder 127

Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Cofounder Seed Capital 127

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Conversely, others would relish the opportunity to earn a living from home. Do they need VOIP (voice over IP) to talk to clients so that they can still use the office telephone number? Some people actually enjoy coming in to the office and like to create a clear distinction between their home and work life. How do you pick?

Technical Review 178

Technical Review IP Employee Lean 178

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly Over the past 2.5 particularly as you achieve scale.

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IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Meanwhile, new businesses and startups should keep GDPR regulations at the forefront of all business growth conversations to avoid having to backtrack and meet requirements retroactively. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

Europe 100

Europe Software Review IP Affiliate 100

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2016

There are many site owners who never even consider speed and uptime as factors for achieving more traffic and conversion. Evidence exists that your hosting IP address can affect your SEO and traffic from Google , particularly if your users are concentrated in a specific geo-location/country. by Matt Janaway, owner of Outreachly.uk.

Hosting 100

Hosting Software Review eCommerce IP 100

Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

Page Speed: Search engines favor faster pages for providing a better user experience, leading to lower bounce rates and potentially higher conversions. Domain Name System (DNS) - This is the system that translates human-friendly website names, like www.mucker.com, into numerical IP addresses that computers use to communicate.

SEO 78

SEO Technical Review HTML Software Review 78

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

You can block users from logging in by certain usernames and also IP addresses. Optimising your WordPress design & website for users is the foundation to improving your conversions and one of the factors that can improve your SEO rankings. Optimise for Users!

Caching 100

Caching SEO Open Source IP 100

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

The latest appearance, a 3 hour conversation with Joe Rogan, comes in a troubling time for Meta/Facebook as I covered in my latest post on VC Cafe. Joe Rogan hosted Mark Zuckerberg on a 3-hour conversation on the metaverse and Facebook’s woes. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below.

IP 187

IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Metering does allow sites to segment users who hit your paywall—a key audience for conversion optimization. For sites that rely on a lead-in, it’s a different conversation. Lead-in with a registration or subscription wall and an app conversion strategy. It always boils down to the same conversation,” said Adams.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Conversely if you’re burning $600,000 per month (yes, some companies do) then you only have 5 months of cash left. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. If you have raised venture capital and you feel your runway (number of months cash left) is looking low have a conversation with your VC.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. Ideation/IP. Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

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Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

If you work in conversion optimization – whether at an agency, in-house, or as a consultant – you almost certainly run A/B tests. AB Tasty is a reasonably priced and simple to use tool that serves as a good starting point for companies just starting in conversion optimization. Now, the problem is choosing the right one.

Software Review 129

Software Review Technical Review Analytics Algorithm 129

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2023

If the purchase is being sent to a weird shipping address or is coming from an odd IP address (say from out of country), you may want to pause the transaction until you confirm that it’s legitimate. When a customer does get in touch, you want to start the conversation quickly. Doing so could save you from chargebacks and other hassles.

IP 125

IP Revenue Customer Sales 125

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. 4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. The number of impressions, click-through rates, conversions, view-thrus and other metrics reported by your ad platforms will be less precise than they were before. But there will be an impact on your advertising analytics solutions.

Analytics 130

Analytics IP Web Metrics 130

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" This means users can pose questions or enter queries in a more natural, conversational manner without being limited to specific keywords. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

Artificial Inteligence 346

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Search Database 346

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. What should be in your deck? It’s all upside and limited downside.

IP 239

IP Differentiation Salary Sales 239

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? Every good conversion optimizer has a Google Analytics health checklist of some sort.

Analytics 48

Analytics Software Review eCommerce PPC 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? You need the whole package.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. [Professor Harold van Es]: “I am a scientist who has some computational skills in terms of being able to do some coding but we engaged a professional developer to generate a prototype.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But delaying or avoiding the conversation often results in it being more awkward than it needs to be. 4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Satya and I were having lunch (yummy Chinese food) with our LPAC and the conversation turned to generally “how much more did venture portfolios have to fall before they found their true current value?” And fascinating new advances (and needs) in AI, climate, biology, etc are driving tech-IP driven startups.

Portfolio 98

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 98

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. . Flexible VC offers you this.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

If a company is making the leap to Voice over IP (VoIP), IT should set the expectation that this is the only voice client that should be running on the wire. File Sharing. Examples: Mega, TorrentFreak, Pirate Bay. Why: File sharing represents two significant threats to businesses. Another great tool is deep packet inspection.

Networking 100

Networking Bandwidth Software Review Security 100

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?

Intellectual Property 123

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP NDA 123

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. Disturbing was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. I wish you all the best for the New Year.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Atlanta Software Review Early Stage 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Low or non-existent conversions.

PPC 121

PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The device was first developed in Mexico by STRAP Technologies CEO and Founder, Diego Roel, who comes from an extensive background in robotics, new product ideation, R&D and IP strategy. STRAP is the first assistive technology on the market that replaces the white cane that’s been in use for over 100 years,” Roel said.

Technology 99

Technology Mexico IP Austin 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

And PLEASE remember this critical advice for your meeting deck … The goal if a meeting deck is to aid your conversation not to show how great you are at making slides. The goal of a fund-raising meeting is to build rapport and you can only do this looking in somebody else eyeballs and having a two-way conversation. Compelling.

Portfolio 261

Portfolio IP Later Stage Email 261

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

So every company that I now work with or talk to that has a need for character-based IP — I always direct them to Andrew. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. How Would You Build a Movie Studio if You Started Today?

IP 150

IP Revenue Campaign Video 150

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right? In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization?

SEO 48

SEO Technical Review Algorithm Jacksonville 48

Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

The net impact of all this is that any conversation about price without the other pieces will never yield full success. Do you have patents or IP wedges that create defensible moats around your differentiation? Take a question from the list above and have a conversation within your company. Survey the market.

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Differentiation Virginia .Net B2C 54