ConversionXL
MARCH 17, 2021
No surprise, during this time, many B2B businesses were struggling to adjust to a world without physical events. Canceled events and tradeshows increased the focus on outbound activities. As a result, Zoom became a house name for video calling while their stocks grew by 545% in 1 year. Content blindness.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 14, 2011
In particular, the level of R&D collaboration with and IP licensing from universities and public research institutes remained relatively low among high-tech firms. But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011.
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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. Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee.
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Nevertheless, choosing to defer basic corporate housekeeping items can be disastrous in some circumstances, as when the failure to spend a few thousand dollars on legal fees to clarify IP ownership and equity arrangements comes back to bite a successful company to the tune of millions of dollars on the eve of a liquidity event.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets. A new breakthrough could solve this problem: Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs).
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
VC is a “get rich slow” business, because most VC Partners will not see a carry check for 5-10 years, after waiting for both liquidity events and for LPs to be paid first. Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. This requires a real financial sacrifice.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 17, 2017
I recall that MSA’s stock increased 5X or thereabouts after our deal, which by no means implies that Peachtree deserved sole credit for all that. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. I got the message. Do the math.
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