VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2022

NFTs will become a mainstream behavior, while creating value for consumers and IP owners; every technology and media company will need an NFT strategy (Source: Activate Consulting). Another interesting report on Gen-Z trends is Dazed Media’s 2031 Future World report. The WSJ shares more on this crypto gaming trend.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. will collect taxes on sales in the U.S. ” The Cost of Financing. If high U.S.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I’m putting myself in the same boat now with the solution I’m developing so could you tell me: 1. product that barely worked, no sales organization (except tech support, which often works better anyway ), and I just hoped they’d run a credit card. make for not putting customer development before writing code.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Intellectual property (IP). Form a basis for making better decisions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

They own the IP. Esports teams make money in a variety of ways: sponsorship (primarily), broadcast rights, ticket sales and merchandise. How does the Esports industry make money and where are we in the development of the business side of Esports? They sell the game. Anything having to do with the games has to go through them.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Depending on your location and industry, your company may have federal, state, foreign and sales tax filing requirements, all of which will be heavily scrutinized by the potential acquirer. When using others (employees, contractors, third parties) to develop your technology, be sure that ownership of IP is assigned to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. 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. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Intellectual property (IP). To attract investors and financing.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at the challenges users of real estate software development services face and when your company should consider building its own real estate CRM. a 34 per cent boost in sales productivity. Improve sales accuracy by 42%. The post How does a Real Estate Software Development Company Work?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. Here’s a hack for you. Disclosure: he’s my cousin.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. Solo founders take 3.6x less likely to pivot. Business-heavy founding teams are 6.2x

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2019

If people knew that there was a huge chance that their idea would be taken by a major company as soon as they publicized it, there would be very little incentive to ever disclose new developments. You Can Use Your IP Rights For Leverage. In addition, you can sell your IP along with your company (or separate from the company).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). If I use Invoca as an example: we handle tens of millions of phone calls for customers who want to drive sales calls into call centers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And unlike counterparts in the West, Asian startups tend to prefer develop their technology in-house (about three-quarters of those surveyed), rather than tapping on external sources of R&D. But all in all, it’s still early days for the Singapore technology entrepreneurial scene.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The goal is to gather a skill set around that table that reflects the next level of maturity of the business, and to regularly refresh it as the business scales up and needs a different skill set for each stage of its development. Startup directors’ value should be recognised. 0.75% for directors and 1-2% for the chair.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And a boost toward a faster timeline and better probability of a business sale at an exciting price. Company Scenario #2: A company with a solid revenue base - say more than $5 million in sales - but competes in an industry not one of great, current interest to buyers / investors. A boost toward better financial results. Relationships.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 25, 2020

Product collaborations involve a range of intellectual property (IP) and other commercial issues. In a food collaboration, the party manufacturing the product would usually do the product development work, with input from the non-manufacturing party. What IP is being licensed? Who can renew the collaboration and on what terms?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

ReadyPlayerMe (RPM) – the company provides developers a customizable plug-and-play system for 3D avatars. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). Consolidated brands NFT sales (source: Dune ). Bored Ape M&Ms.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

I mean developing and inserting a subtle collection of gentle nudges that can help increase the conversion rate by a statistically significant amount. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. And, they show you historical sales and would buy it again rates.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Recent developments in digital marketing have caused a great deal of change in the industry. Anushil Kumar explains how digital marketing has developed in terms of behavioral and demographic targeting and how these changes will affect companies of all kinds. Ad targeting happens through social media, online behavior, and demographics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. Legal threats from other IP holders?

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

My first role was in sales and the buyers on the platform absolutely loved the access to global freelancers, the low hourly rates, and the full transparency and flexibility in the system. As I grew to understand the careful and strategic practice of recruitment, I developed an ability to make tough decisions quickly.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Once I developed the fabric I wanted it to have a name that was memorable, and that described it in one word. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. While developing the app and starting the company, I was stuck for a name. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. We developed the first protocol to measure the human brain's acute production of oxytocin and then showed it had behavioral effects. Zak (11:46): But I think it's the same thing in, in, you know, direct sales, right? Dr. Paul J.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I recently saw a job posted on a web developer recruiting website. link] A compliment or IP rip off with me and @ rentoid as the victims? It involved some people looking for coders to make a copy of my web business and livelihood www.rentoid.com. Here’s a screen print of it below. I was a bit annoyed at first.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Finally, as part of growth of any business is the ability to successfully execute on business development – this can include increased sales, successful fundraising and team member acquisition. At the end of this exercise, you will have a list of all the areas for growth and development of you, your team and the organization.

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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? Thank you or sale complete pages not using separate URLs. Are you doing country filtering?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Based on ROI, incentives should be developed for all participants.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, a summer sale or a holiday coupon. Primarily, they’re designed to encourage sales from potential or previous customers. While transactional emails can be designed to encourage sales, they can also be designed to encourage engagement. Letting Developers Manage Transactional Emails. via Litmus).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. This time it was serious.

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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. The test segmenting features are very robust, actions can be triggered by device, ip, cookie, audience type and at specific times of day allowing us to test whatever we want, when we want.’

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