VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You wouldnt believe how many people loose the valuable IP by putting way to much info in their project descriptions. which grew from two main employees. Should be a simple $50 to $100 script. go to both www.elance.com www.rentacoder.com create user accounts and list your project. list a brief outline of the script you need created.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Consultant.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Names can be classified on a continuum based on how they communicate to consumers, says Nina Beckhardt, president of The Naming Group , an agency whose employees have crafted names for Walmart, Target and Puma. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Does It Mean Something? Some of the things you mention I have done.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Nice going NYC government PR machine. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. Why not just pay Graham Lawler directly do to this and spend the city's PR capital on supporting Ultra Light, versus going head to head with him?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. or the countless other successful startup firms. Seattle has its patrons.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Greatthings happen when a group of employees go out to dinner together, talk over ideas, and then come back to their offices to implement them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

And when you have employees who really believe they are deserving of such, you are building a bad product. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees." Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? Desperately.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. More comments at the end.

Java 107

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence). It incentivises sub optimal behavior in your employees/agencies.

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