VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. As Viola points out, there are 5 main barriers to adoption: Security, privacy, intellectual property, performance, and cost.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Open Source 109

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

The size standards are different for each industry and are defined by the government body established to oversee such matters. Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500.

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Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Apply for contests and business grants.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Apply for contests and business grants.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 208

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

Intellectual Property 213

Intellectual Property IP Software Review Non-disclosure Agreement 213

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes.

Technical Review 267

Technical Review Due Diligence Entrepreneur Intellectual Property 267

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. and sell them to consumers, businesses, and governments. Specialized Materials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

The business proposals I see often target multiple unrelated segments, such as consumers, enterprises, and government. Provide initial and long-term sources of revenue. Every business, including non-profits, need a viable source of revenue to cover the costs of operation and sustainability.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Business Model Channel 332

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million!

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Lack of intellectual property. Investors expect a good value proposition in every pitch.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 120

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 will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Lack of intellectual property. Investors expect a good value proposition in every pitch.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 308

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In order to get your invention and business off the ground, you will need to invest time and money on protecting your intellectual property , development, production and marketing. While covering these costs can seem daunting, there are a number of funding opportunities available. Government funding. Crowdfunding.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Government Venture Capital 113

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. How do I sell my products to the federal government?

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Looking ahead.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Looking ahead.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. Who owns the IP — the old employer or the founder/startup — is governed by state law and the terms of any agreements that the founder executed. Introduction. code, designs, logo, etc.)

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IP Software Review Founder Technical Review 52

Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

Many entrepreneurs lead with fuzzy terms like “improved usability” and “lower cost.” Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. Dramatic cost improvement for cause. Saying that you will work harder and more efficiently than competitors to keep costs down is not convincing. Strong focus and differentiation.

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Intellectual Property Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 244

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

12:22] Would you look at the value derived by digital technologies differently than by producing customer value or revenue? [14:23] And their question for us was how should they organize and govern those and prioritize them and resource them and so on. 16:32] Are there organizations that are significantly behind in this rewiring ?

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

Many entrepreneurs lead with fuzzy terms like “improved usability” and “lower cost.” Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. Dramatic cost improvement for cause. Saying that you will work harder and more efficiently than competitors to keep costs down is not convincing. Strong focus and differentiation.

Intellectual Property 256

Intellectual Property Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 256

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Internal Revenue Service and Canada Revenue Agency both allow small business owners to write off or deduct the funds and intellectual property that they dedicate toward nonprofit causes and initiatives. That’s where a governing body comes in. As you move closer to opening day, clarify how you’ll generate revenue.

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Intellectual Property Government Dividend Canada 78

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 28, 2022

The FTC and Chamber of Commerce were the greatest supporters of the Revenue Act of 1938. It took three years and cost three million dollars. It made strides in patent law and protecting intellectual property. Today, the organization is the largest business federation in the US Government. was ongoing.

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Intellectual Property United States America Washington 59

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Lack of intellectual property. Investors expect a good value proposition in every pitch.

Due Diligence 120

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 120

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. But, if you have intellectual property that is proprietary to your business and helps your business defend itself against competitors, you should detail that information here. For restaurants, it would be the cost of ingredients.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It is a constantly coordinated, ongoing set of relationships with customers, government officials, craftspeople, and your internal people. This would be the architect, business lawyer, intellectual property attorney, banker, insurance broker, real estate agent, label maker, hop grower, malt supplier, tank fabricator, and accountant.”.

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Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Once you decide on your legal business structure, be sure to register with the government (typically your state and sometimes, your municipality) and the IRS. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. marketing and advertising costs. equipment costs or leases.

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Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. So low, that you’d probably close down the business if your profit to revenue ratios ever got that low. tax on $10 of revenue.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Australia Singapore Government 48

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

Intellectual Property 139

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2010

Many entrepreneurs lead with fuzzy terms like “improved usability” and “lower cost.” Here are some of the key ones: Real intellectual property. Dramatic cost improvement for cause. Saying that you will work harder and more efficiently than competitors to keep costs down is not convincing.

Intellectual Property 124

Intellectual Property Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 124

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. Drive for a repeatable and scalable business model (revenue in Dave McClure’s investment thesis, “ network of scale &# in Union Square’s.).

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Here’s how to avoid it: Have proper contracts in place between your business and all of your clients, contractors and business partners with terms covering what exactly being exchanged, who owns the resulting intellectual property, cancellation clauses, payment terms and all that beautiful boilerplate that is sure to save your ass one day.

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