VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

The company’s decision to increase the price of the two year old Quest 2 by $100 (citing rising costs) and a weak performance in Q2 2022 are showing the growing pains of this transition: Facebook dropped in revenue for the first time , and Reality Labs brought in $452 million in revenue over the quarter. but still lost $2.8

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If you can check these boxes and convince venture capitalists that you’ve achieved product fit in a market with plenty of room for growth, you have a real shot at securing funding. When I started my last company, we were focused on developing technology to lower the cost of detecting and diagnosing Type 2 diabetes.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . Other products like Sparkswap, which allowed users to buy Lightning BTC via atomic swaps, faced the same challenge. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If you think it’s location-based services / find out where your friends are at while you’re out – let’s talk about whether we need to incorporate that into our product. I logged into a room to listen to music & see what the product was all about. To ignore FourSquare would be dumb. But I saw turntable.fm

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Presenting Companies: Axiomed ( www.axiomed.com ) has a 2nd generation Total Disc Replacement (TDR) product that holds promise to improve outcomes for the millions of people that suffer from degenerative disc disease. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology. 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.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. Flexible VC offers you this.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For example, our portfolio company Hour One allows you to create videos straight from text featuring virtual presenters, driving the cost of video creation down. . There are plentiful advantages to list here, chiefly among them the potential to increase our productivity by 10x or more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

HBS Professor Tom Eisenmann is creating a course next spring on "Launching Technology Ventures" where he is going to delve into lean start-ups, finding product-market fit, what are the key start-up activities before product-market fit and what are the most important activities afterwards, and other salient topics. of the product.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

This includes new methods, products, expressions of ideas, trade secrets, brands and logos. As soon as you have a business or product idea and you’ve spent some time planning what this may look like in reality, start looking into intellectual property protection. What is intellectual property?

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Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Early Stage 91

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The event will culminate in Demo Day, which is tomorrow, and will see Seedcamp showcase its portfolio startups to a wide variety of professional investors and press. Rawstream is a cloud-based web-filtering service that banks on secure DNS servers to help SMBs secure their Internet access, meet compliance and boost employee productivity.

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Startup IP Cloud Algorithm 123

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. That product image you tested may show up number one in Google’s image results to bring you 100 visitors per month. When Product Reviews Hurt Conversions. SEO brings in free traffic without an exact cost, and CRO converts them.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the value that a strong patent portfolio can give your company is unmatched. The fact is, not paying for the critical review and legal costs to create or enforce a patent almost always ends up costing more in the long run. Broader patent protection for key products. Yes, patents are expensive. Don’t do it.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Portfolio Startup Intellectual Property 88

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP United States 174

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I invented the nutrition beverage product known as Soylent, which a company continues to grow and flourish today. I liked dealing with the bomb, and I wanted to find this intersection of software and hardware that would lead to a really great product. You're selling a consumable product, which is a great business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Startup 259

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

2023 Unity Gaming Report Generative AI is faster than most consumer products and attracting a high level of VC investment, even in today’s tough funding environment. Ultimately, even though this is a very fast developing space, we only have very few actual production ready tools that a company can depend on.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 18, 2005

Last year at this time, I was at Demo in Arizona watching a couple of my portfolio companies launch new products and networking with other VCs and entrepreneurs. It seems that the consensus view from Demo was that there were lots of interesting products but nothing that blew the audience away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run. The cost for a single trademark is around $300.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

Development costs have gone up since 2009, as has production quality and game quality. This has caused development costs and timelines to increase, but generally but less than an order of magnitude. Publishers with a hugely successful hit game can often milk the IP with subsequent releases. This has changed dramatically.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

According to Oracle’s official announcement : Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core, significantly reducing integration and hardware costs.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Nand Mulchandani.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. DVTel, Inc., DVTel, Inc.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

And while I didn't spend a great deal of time in research, I somehow pivoted into IP licensing, which led me to meet Nadja and we founded YourChoice Therapeutics together, and that's what led to the genesis of ANA Therapeutics. So, what was the original vision for the company and then how did you settle on niclosamide as a product to pursue?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Their technologies shrink down prohibitively expensive, enormous, room-sized status quo visualization equipment into a single briefcase, providing tenfold more value, and costing 10 times less. Finish development of the production device, complete a first in man trial and regulatory approval, and get to 10 paying customers.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Zero squared economic value or cost savings to the business. Here's one… We are looking at two consumer product brands, the tiny company Innocent Drinks and the Goliath called Tide Detergent. Let's say you have a stock portfolio with someone like E-Trade. Zero value on Facebook and 2. Let me use an example here.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. Great for visualizing work of product development. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Xtranormal. Login System.

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