Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Still, you can use accounting software or work with a tax professional. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people. If you’re unsure whether you should file for IP, consult with an IP attorney for professional guidance.

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Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Therefore we’re going to teach the class in the following order: 1) value proposition, 2) customer segments, 3) activities, 4) resources, 5) partners, 6) channel, 7) customer relationships, 8) revenue/costs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

Software defined networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are key technology trends sure to affect the future of networking. And adoption will likely continue to be slow — mostly due to costs associated with making the switch. By Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds. Wireless is as a mature technology as they come.

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Networking IP Bandwidth Technical Review 100

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

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. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. Fortnite generated $5.8 but still lost $2.8 billion during that same period.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The reality faced by entrepreneurs is that legal services can be expensive and IP protection may not be an initial priority. But having an IP strategy can help you get the most from your IP and help minimize common pitfalls and legal expenses. Trade marks. It’s best to select a mark and use it consistently.

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IP Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property New Zealand 62

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

Most service providers will offer a free or low-cost consultation to give you an idea of price, and many will help you make the migration in increments to keep costs low and establish early buy-in. Instead of jumping into the cloud, consider replacing some of your current applications with a software-as-a-service equivalent.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. ” If you’re not profitable you’re purely a cost center to them. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) =. Operating Costs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest. They need to comply with laws, create back-end processes, and build prototypes — all of which cost money.

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Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Cofounder Seed Capital 127

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. To get your question answered , email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com.

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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. On the positive, the cost of living is amongst the lowest in the nation.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Performing all these tasks using poorly configured software or old hardware can be annoying since it can be time-consuming, and it requires a major effort. Hiring an MPS provider will help identify problems like empty cartridges, and you’ll even get reports on matters such as print usage, consumable spending, and cost per printed page.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

Install anti-hacking software. They just cost money, so a lot of cash-strapped startups decide to put them off until "later.". IP theft is happening a lot more in startups," says Chris Porter, senior security analyst at Verizon and coauthor of Verizon's recently released 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. "IP And many more.

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IP Security Intellectual Property Startup 121

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . > 14,000 public nodes . > > 36,000 public channels . > 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

However, the influx of low-cost or no-cost applications – easy to download and user-friendly – means rogue employees are failing to bring IT into the equation, despite the effect (and potential risks) these applications can pose on the network. IT pros must zero in on application management to ensure business continuity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 3, 2014

Not protecting your business’ IP or unwittingly infringing someone else’s can be a really costly unforced error. This week Allonn Levy of Hopkins & Carley and Glenn McCrae, EGFS’ Strategy Officer, gave a webinar on how to avoid the biggest mistakes startups make with IP. Mistake #1 — Failure to register IP.

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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. The estimate for resolving a patent infringement dispute was about $1M in legal costs and the process could potentially take at least 2 years.

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Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Choosing the right account-based marketing software can be a messy process. Some ABM software is an add-on to an existing tool. Some companies sell relevant software but not explicitly for ABM. Software can help with each: Identify the right accounts and targets within them. G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option.

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

A few takeaways from the podcast: Meta is launching a new hardware VR headset in October this year (currently called “Project Cambria” but it’s likely to be “Quest Pro”) The new device will cost $800 and will help users experience a feeling of “social presence.” Bored Ape M&Ms.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. Today that same type of utility can be executed at a very small percentage of that cost.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The Bacs system uses a secure, internet-based service called Bacstel-IP to make payments between banks. Bacs direct debit is a simple and cost-effective way of receiving recurring payments. How Does Bacs Software Benefit Businesses? There are numerous benefits of investing in this software and using the Bacs system.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

Seeing the reaction to Bilski, what has struck me is how surprised and disappointed some people are with the weak will of the Supreme Court to act to limit the damage that software patents are causing, and will keep causing, to innovation in the U.S. Software innovation continues, by the way, in spite of the patent system, not because of it.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019. 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. Competing businesses. If you can—great!

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PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point. 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. Experience/Seniority/Role.

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Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It comes pre-packaged with a versatile mount and onboard camera software. Pelco Spectra HD IP High-Speed Dome Camera. For a crystal-clear image on your IP camera, the Pelco Spectra never fails to deliver. 264 compression in its video quality, and can be operated with third party software with open architecture connectivity.

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IP Louisiana Security Architecture 100

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland.

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Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I’m going to start by going back to 1994. How To Do It.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point. 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.

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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

You own the IP you create. “How much is that software really worth? We were building a VC backed software business so I had to focus on the product business. Final message on financing – just be careful not to let your fixed costs get too high as a young services business. Who else is using it?

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. And putting out there the “story” behind the numbers - the talent, work ethic, and integrity of our people, the suredness of our IP, the thoughtfulness of our product development roadmap, the sustainable competitive advantage of our operational cost structure, and the like.

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Harvest IP Software Review Forecast 48

NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

All too often, we see news stories of high-profile trade secrets disputes involving high legal fees, damage to reputation and, most importantly, a loss of intellectual property (IP) and its related advantages for a business. Many business owners will not realise that the IP the company owns can be a significant value driver to the business.

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IP Intellectual Property Database Early Stage 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values. As with Analytics, additional modules for Target such as personalisation and recommendations come at a cost.”. Pricing for Adobe Target is available on request.

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