SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free….

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NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 198

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

When founders are wrong (which happens often), that initial seed round runs out quickly, requiring another round of funding — typically referred to as a bridge round. betting on the future value of these young companies instead of their current traction. . Fundraising debt.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Customer lists.

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Intellectual Property Business Plan IP Early Stage 60

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" Structured Data refers to information organized in a defined manner, making it easier to search and analyze. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. the link is here. And Brad Feld. This is a must read for all entrepreneurs.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. You can also set up custom alerts in Google Analytics to spot a dramatic change in conversions. You can store the information with a custom dimension. You can do this with custom reports, custom segments , etc., How to fix it. Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Again, your merchandizing team is working hard to procure these amazing bundles for your customers, so why are they not a core part of your nudge strategy? better to be upfront as the customers are looking for that information…. In-stock status. Life of current price.

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Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2020

Both terms refer to an attack that opens the door to cybercrime by getting someone to perform a certain action—this usually comes in the form of tempting someone to click on a malicious link or attachment. There could also be the consequence of IP theft, loss of company privacy or the loss of customer privacy.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

While the details of the regulations might feel a bit overwhelming to manage, we’ve assembled a list of 5 legal requirements that help to protect your customers and web visitors. Essentially, you’re establishing or furthering the trust your customers have in your business by adhering to these requirements.

Intellectual Property 83

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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 not be in your deck? Many of my colleagues do, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

They come in the form of personal references. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. We fought for every customer together.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. Some web analytics tools providers still user third-party cookies, and often their customers are unaware. data stored on a customer's browser)… If the person opts-in, nothing changes. This is quite inadvisable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

So by following these prompts, by seeing how we've broken up the prompts into certain pillars, brand industry leads, CX customer experience, it, it really gives you a, a very good feel for how we view strategy in general. Typically, what we find is that some 20% of of a customer's clients produce close to 80% of their business.

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Marketing ChatGPT Framework Technical Review 82

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. And VC’s are tough customers. What about Product / IP? They’ve “seen it all.&#. That’s not an M?

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

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. So I’d still rather refer to “industries&# and “markets&#. Just get out of the building.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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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? Have you configured your custom and default channel groupings? Does the site use custom variables?

Analytics 48

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results. People refer to their power banks as their Boosas. The mineral we refer to jade in the in the West represents two stone nephrite and jadeite.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. Clarity for the team that is building the product, clarity for the customer who’s using the product, and clarity when you’re marketing the product. Topics of the day.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. How do we know how much the customer will buy and how long it will take?  How big is the customer problem being solved?  How big is the customer problem being solved?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Service as a bridge to a product business - One of the best ways for young startups to finance their business without any dilution is what I call “customer financing,&# which is mostly only possible in businesses that target businesses rather than consumers. You own the IP you create. It’s pure irony.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Finding New Customers In Untapped Places written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation, and she recently wrote a new book called – The Widest Net: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers Right in Front of You – launching in November 2021. Like this show?

Customer 101

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2017

Referring subnets. The sum of referring IPs. They also boost your brand and help you earn your customers’ trust. Incorporate star ratings, customers’ faces and quotes into your pages. While it states that correlation studies can’t clearly define specific causal relations, they can tell us where we should look.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

The clicks aren’t from potential customers, but they’re often from real people. 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

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2024

And so it's advised that everybody follows through and makes sure that you do what you can to make sure that the mailbox providers and ISPs out there in the world know that this email is from you and that you authorized it to be sent from certain IP addresses. Now, let me give you another scenario. I understand the settings for it.

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Email Technical Review Software Review IP 86

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

We asked them to (defend our IP/secure our cloud-based offering/streamline our accounts receivable department/jumpstart our research and development) and they got the job done on time and under budget.” Or we create a logic around our analysis of the problem and a process we have to address that problem. Gupta & Jones never disappointed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US. This also happens out of “startup weekends” where it’s unclear who contributed to the IP and where many people don’t continue with the idea beyond the first 30 days.

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Vesting Cofounder IP Stock Options 150

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

But in B2B, you’re often dealing with fewer products, but you not only need to take into account the persona of the person coming to your website, but where they are in the customer journey.”. To what points in the customer journey do they correspond? They may have been a customer before. Who is your ideal customer profile ?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

People who are your existing customers / past purchasers, they'll type url and come to the site or via bookmarks. You worked so hard to get that referring link / execute the campaign. First visit: From a campaign (search, referring url, social, display, whatever). People familiar with your brand. Don't be that person.

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Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Primarily, they’re designed to encourage sales from potential or previous customers. A triggered email, on the other hand, is HTML generated by combining a custom template with user data around a specific event, and then sent directly through an ESP (like Mandrill, Postmark, or SendGrid) to that user.” Example: LinkedIn.

Email 48

Email Canada Technical Review Software Review 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Customers use search engines from initial consideration through the purchase—and past it. As Kevin Indig notes , longer queries tend to be less ambiguous. Geography (i.e. A Think with Google report contends that. Image source ).

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Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. In those days we just called it sales.

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

“Programmatic” ad buying typically refers to the use of software or automation to purchase digital advertising, as opposed to the traditional and timely processes. RTB refers to the purchase of ads through real-time auctions, but programmatic plat also allows advertisers to buy ad impressions from specific publisher sites.

Advertising 100

Advertising Cofounder Campaign IP 100

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We asked them to (defend our IP/secure our cloud-based offering/streamline our accounts receivable department/jumpstart our research and development) and they got the job done on time and under budget.” Or we create a logic around our analysis of the problem and a process we have to address that problem.

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Virginia Dallas Merger DC 113

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

10- Customer targeting and positioning strategy. My naming process actually started with my customer targeting and positioning strategy. Guru is a word for teacher, and -locity is a reference to the word velocity. an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! Thanks to Paul Koger, Foxy Trades ! #10-

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 93

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Note that the tips refer mainly to web ventures. If you can’t explain your idea in 2 sentences, your customers probably won’t either. Get feedback from your customers. Ask customers how they would use your product – friends and family don’t count for this purpose. Know your competition.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2016

Use them to learn more about not only their tactics but also the customers they’re aiming their efforts at. You can help one another by sharing customer data or straight up referring directly to customers. Referrals can seriously boost your potential customer base if done right. Providing you do it right.

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