Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 18, 2018

It is defined as an online repository of information for storing and distributing shared documents, and can be used during business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital funding. It should also protect your IP address and your shared documents.

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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. The holders will be able to trade these tokens. What are your goals for Knowbella in 2019?

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. Lu Zhang is the founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund , a company dedicated to promoting early-stage venture capital for entrepreneurs.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

The Startup Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

As a result, you’ll need to manage which files each user may access. Therefore, ensure to have access only to authorized users and IP addresses. Therefore, you will need a business sharing file sharing solution that allows you to distribute unlimited links to third parties. It prevents hackers from accessing the files.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

IT pros must zero in on application management to ensure business continuity. If a company is making the leap to Voice over IP (VoIP), IT should set the expectation that this is the only voice client that should be running on the wire. Get management buy-in. File Sharing. Examples: Mega, TorrentFreak, Pirate Bay.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC offers you this.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. Those with the best teams, and which are well managed always win. Distribution & Customers.

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Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 132

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Many distribution, manufacturing, and service businesses fit this description. 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. Putting all of this out there and SO many good things come back to us.

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Harvest IP Software Review Forecast 48

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. You will need managers, top notch infrastructure and of course eventually an HR team for recruiting, policy enforcement, policy making, benefits coordination and general HR duties.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If you use the IP address given to you by your ISP, your online activity is probably far from save. Tor creates a layer of anonymity by bouncing your activity around a distributed network relays. Epic Privacy Browser offers several useful features, such as Do Not Track and a built-in proxy that conceals your IP address.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. Trend to watch : digital rights management solutions for creators. Gen Z and the 1% rule.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2021

Power and Battery Management The STRAP device utilizes its self-awareness information to initiate power-saving mode when the user has stopped. Straight Line Navigation (SLN) Pressing a certain button on the device activates its ability to plot a straight path ahead.

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Mexico Algorithm IP Austin 65

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The company provides management consulting services to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies – I wanted clients to know that the company’s values include balance, perspective, integrity, stability, and practicality. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good.

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Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 102

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2015

Most of the small businesses preferred web-based or hosted solutions, denying IP-PBX. An interesting finding from this data was that small businesses actually lacked a proper IT team and preferred web-based solution primarily because of the ease of management. The remainder did not specify. PBX and Auto Attendant are like Hotcakes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. D-Logic Inc.

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Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley 113

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

With chat-based commands, you can manage contacts, run reports, and even ask for status updates. So the example I give is we call a turn in a roadway, A turn, but it's really not, it's just a non-linear distribution of asphalt. The easy to use CRM just got even easier. It only becomes a turn when something turns on it.

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Technical Review Cofounder Kansas City Tulsa 65

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2017

An ad manager. There are several free WordPress ad management plugins to choose from. Advertisement managers allow you to see detailed analytics from inside the WordPress dashboard, so you don’t have to move around from one screen to the next to see what’s going on inside your site. Login LockDown. Floating Social Bar.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Davis , a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farm er who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist , four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants. Any IP you need to license?

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 223

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

They simply didn’t know of any other blockchain-based online casino business with the management, regulatory, technical knowledge, and experience that they had in place. Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. A New System.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

While Walmart hasn’t acquired in this area yet, its internal initiatives and IP show interest. Select investors: Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Slow Ventures, Maveron, Tiger Global Management. Allbirds’ expanding appeal, range of products, and distribution channels could attract Walmart. Increase in-store efficiency.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Take any steps needed to qualify Newco to conduct the business it plans to conduct wherever it’s located (for example, a filing made in California qualifying a Delaware corporation to do business there if the management team is located in San Francisco). Strategic partnership or distribution agreements. Office and equipment leases.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

The complexities of Japan’s distribution and regulatory environment are important considerations. Also, patent review is slower than Europe, as noted by Maier Fenster of IP firm Ehlich & Fenster in his presentation IP in Japan. We can help with issues like regulation and distribution to reach Japanese consumers”.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Anyway, the way to manage that is still to execute better. Whether or not the new distribution models ultimately took off, its a good bet that the world would be a little less red today. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. Very good points all around. Zuckerberg.

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Another major trick is basing regional managers in these low cost tax markets to ‘approve strategy’ and ‘brand related’ decisions in order to justify the intellectual property rights payments and revenue shifting. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes.

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Intellectual Property Australia Singapore Government 48

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment?

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2014

by Simon Whitford, Senior Regional Marketing Manager, Content Solutions Business, APAC, WD. RAID 5 mode incorporates “distributed parity”, which allows the array to survive the loss of a single drive, allowing continued access to your data as the faulty drive is replaced. Seconds tick by; your brow is slicked with cold sweat.

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Cloud IP Networking Security 160

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Most CEOs assign the responsibility to establish and manage their innovation outposts (and the outpost’s relationships to startups) to their R&D organizations. While that avoids internal management conflict, it’s the wrong way to make an innovation outpost decision. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption.

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

BroadTec - Broadtec’s MYTV integrated broadcast management system incorporates sophisticated playlist scheduling, planning, logistics, rights management, Commercials, media production & inventory. 264 and multi-screen, the ICE Video Platform is the clear leader for Every Screen video processing and distribution.

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Mobile Media IP Distribution 113

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They use geo/ip to work out where I am. The product/brand managers at 7 for all mankind clothes, Bertolli pasta sauce, Pepsi, Dodge Dart, etc. I have zero doubt that the brand manager for Ragu and SVP of the foods division are amazingly smart people full of passion. I press a button and – boom! – Music! I love this.

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Web Design Marketing Security 164

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + Lock users into proprietary rights management, distribution or consumption models? Launch a closed iTunes / iTV? I choose open.

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