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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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

We are in the experimentation stage, where brands, IP, communities, are testing the waters for relevancy, connection with the younger fans, and new income potential. Toya partners with IP holders to create engaging experiences, like Miraculous Ladybug Role Play, which has just won the Best Alternative Game 2022 by Kidscreen.

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Forecast IP Mobile Acquisition 190

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Communication synchronization is of the utmost importance when you’re working with distributed talent. Also, decide if your company needs any confidentiality or IP assignment agreements. You want the developer and your team to be calibrated on the time window during which everyone is going to be available and reachable.

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Engineer Software Review Hiring Development Team Review 150

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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Technical Review Due Diligence Merger Private Equity 80

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 118

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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IP Startup Distribution Government 45

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Sometimes it is just the right time to sell your startup. However, having sold my own venture for millions of dollars, I can tell you that getting acquired and finding the right startup exit is 10 times harder than raising capital. . You can check out the other nine big lessons I learned in selling my startup in this Forbes article.

Intellectual Property 101

Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 101

The Startup Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

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. The post What You Need to Consider When Choosing a Secure File Transfer Solution appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Security Bandwidth IP Distribution 141

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Here is a list of ways that you can use public relations to benefit your startup, even before it is started: Make yourself a spokesman for your domain. In a startup, you are the brand.

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Elevator Pitch Public Relations Startup IP 240

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Here is a list of ways that you can use public relations to benefit your startup, even before it is started: Make yourself a spokesman for your domain. In a startup, you are the brand.

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PR Elevator Pitch Public Relations Startup 231

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. For starters I’d like to tell you what I tell every startup that wants to “build a YouTube business.”

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Networking Media Distribution Video 366

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Here is a list of ways that you can use public relations to benefit your startup, even before it is started: Make yourself a spokesman for your domain. In a startup, you are the brand.

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Public Relations Elevator Pitch Startup IP 226

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Business Model SEM IP Syndicate 150

Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Here is a list of ways that you can use public relations to benefit your startup, even before it is started: Make yourself a spokesman for your domain. In a startup, you are the brand.

Elevator Pitch 158

Elevator Pitch Startup IP Public Relations 158

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Low; a surprising number of Series A/B startups are missing basic financial reporting mechanisms. of startups raise VC. Of the Inc.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. web development projects.

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Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

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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IP Internet Naming Social Media 75

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2021

About STRAP Technologies The device was first developed in Mexico by STRAP Technologies CEO and Founder, Diego Roel, who comes from an extensive background in robotics, new product ideation, R&D and IP strategy. We’ve spent three years on the research and development of STRAP to invent a product that is truly innovative.

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Mexico Algorithm IP Austin 65

Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). The acquirer is typically a large successful company, and the target is typically a failing early-stage startup. Based on the foregoing, the founders rarely receive any distribution from the purchase price proceeds.

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Founder Merger IP Liquidation Preference 45

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. In the end Knox, like a lot of startups in Life Science and Health Care, discovered that they had a multi-sided market. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it. They learned a ton.

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Lean Customer Development IP Agile 241

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders.   Posted at 04:19 PM in Funding startups | Permalink. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this post, I wanted to deconstruct the various pieces of the flywheel that drives the Creator Economy, as well as the challenges, and opportunities for startups in this space. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. Source: A16Z, 1,000 true fans?

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. humbledmba.com) 279 points by jaf12duke 216 days ago | comments. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I pointed out to Bob the irony – in a large company “fear of failure” inhibits speed and risk taking while in a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. In a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency.

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Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. It can’t just be videos on YouTube but I’ll be that YouTube is the distribution platform. think Apple.

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Video Audience Global Distribution 380

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The larger your customer base, the more opportunities for monetization, and therefore the more attractive your startup is for investors. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market?

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. The post How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Web API 88

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

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 7, 2014

Just to be clear, Reservationhop--the line jumping fake name reservation making most hated startup idea on the internet right now--is not a particularly good idea. - It is not, however, any more morally bankrupt than what a lot of other startup people fawn over. IP masking FTW! We normally ok this kind of startup tactic.

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Venture Capital IP Naming Internet 115

The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

And while both the startup and the large company will certainly contract with respect to intellectual property asset ownership, an asset that may be overlooked is the ownership of the white-label mobile app’s users. Furthermore, the large company is typically not willing to throw a bunch of immediate cash the startup’s way.

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Mobile IP Intellectual Property Vesting 50

The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

And while both the startup and the large company will certainly contract with respect to intellectual property asset ownership, an asset that may be overlooked is the ownership of the white-label mobile app’s users. Furthermore, the large company is typically not willing to throw a bunch of immediate cash the startup’s way.

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Mobile IP Intellectual Property Vesting 44

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand Bonobos in June, and last-mile delivery startup Parcel in September. Scroll down to see the list. New Frontiers in Retail Tech.

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Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In Part I , I gave a quick summary of the who, when and why of forming and documenting a new startup company. This week we’ll delve into what , exactly, is necessary or desirable to lay a solid legal foundation for a startup to build upon. Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., Newco, Inc.”) Yes, it’s a mouthful.

Intellectual Property 139

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. No distributed teams, and no outsourced product development. In a lot of ways I see K9 as my next startup — except it’s a meta-level startup. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth. No retail, no cleantech, no biotech etc.

Seed Stage 61

Seed Stage San Francisco IP Portfolio 61

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Any IP you need to license? This post – part eight – was the last formal lecture. How many people?

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 217

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. They bring high performance with robust distributed accounting, however they suffer security flaws and they don’t have a built-in compliance features. A New System. But that’s not all.

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Open Source CTO Hire Fractional CTO Algorithm 85