Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I called a bunch of portfolio companies and asked them to check it out. Let’s see if there is anything we can learn about our behavior – good lessons or bad ones – that will inform our product design in the future.” I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. Josh was previously the principal designer at Twitter. Abstract is building a common infrastructure to support the modern design workflow. We need help managing our work and how design relates to the rest of the organization.”.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). 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

JUNE 13, 2018

Another great strategy is to ask to meet with some of their portfolio companies if you think your tech would be relevant to them as potential customers. That way your VC meeting becomes a sales lead AND the VC can get input from a trusted source (a portfolio company) without having to immediately commit more time. Compelling.

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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 » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. 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 » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

Others require formal registration, such as patents, designs and trade marks. Even if you make the decision not to protect your intellectual property, this will not insulate you from possible infringement of others’ granted patents, registered designs, or registered and unregistered trade marks.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Then, make a list next to it of your existing products and IP portfolio. Ask yourself, what could be combined, from your existing portfolio, with those new digital capabilities? Do this experiment: Make a list of the new digital technologies (AI, Social Media, Internet of Things, Robotics).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2013

The crowdSPRING system is not intended to spur competition, but rather is designed to encourage the very best work and the best behavior. This category includes Portfolio data as we also believe that sharing your work with other community members exhibits loyalty to them.

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

3) Work in the industry - Accelerators, PR, HR, Design, IP – whatever. 4) Fix a portfolio company- This works if you have operational skills. Every VC has at least one portfolio co that’s not doing well. Bonus points if you’re a ninja in your field of expertise. Then transition. Probably more.

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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. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. K9 expects to be an active investor in portfolio companies and will typically make only 4-6 new investments per year. Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. K9 Ventures, L.P. Twilio (Seed and Series A).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the value that a strong patent portfolio can give your company is unmatched. As a general rule, the fewer patents covering a product, the easier it is to design a competing product around that protection. It is fundamental that the enterprise prioritizes patent protection budgets toward future perceived portfolio value.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 13, 2020

Registered Designs. A registered design is similar to a patent in that it needs to be registered and is for a monopoly, but a registered design protects the way in which a product looks. An example of a well-known design is Apple’s iPad, which has a registered design for a rectangle with curved corners.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

The more complex the games, the more detailed design work they require. Echo3D , a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, works with developers to manage their 3D assets in the cloud and make the content work smoothly across platforms (VR, PC, Mobile, etc) and get model level analytics. is it protectable?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

There's all these conflicting data, because the experimental design and methods are complicated. You could easily design and experiment to vilify or sanctify pretty much any food or ingredient. I also wanted to do this corporate designation, which is called, "The public benefit corporation." So, that's what I started working on.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

We talked about several markets — security, defense, professional (DSLRs), consumer (Point-and-Shoots), mobile (cell phones), IP licensing, lens adapters, etc. Almost every VC firm came back with how they either don’t do hardware, or they don’t do IP licensing plays.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 16, 2008

We started identifying standards and methodologies to scale our work and stopped trying to over think the design. And we work with several companies at one time, so we manage a portfolio in some way. We stayed small, under the radar, focussed on our theme, seeking not to be distracted by opportunism. Thats what OutCubator is.

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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. Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. We’ll cover “ corporate moonshots ” in a subsequent post.).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

Game design has improved, as has design and art. Publishers with a hugely successful hit game can often milk the IP with subsequent releases. Borrowing IP from another media. This can be IP from another gaming platform (Bejeweled Blitz, Zynga Poker, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sims Social) of another medium (Hollywood Squares).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The 72 Israeli companies participating in the 2010 Mobile World Congress: Aerotel Medical Systems – a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. private networks, in nearly 100 countries.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It’s working on a portfolio of 32 products in 6 verticals across the DOD. JAIC Is Applied AI – Focused on Impact.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. RADWIN 2000 is a portfolio of carrier-class products providing high-capacity, long-range connectivity at highly competitive prices.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

In addition to our expanding IP portfolio our competitive advantage includes our empathetically designed, super ergonomic technology. Congratulations on the $25,000 award granted by the Fifth Annual Pediatric Device Innovation Symposium (which recognizes innovative medical devices designed to address unmet needs).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. IP Location Tools. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design.

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