YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Through many meetings discussing strategy, approach, recruiting, financing, etc. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

Intellectual property (IP) is often among the most valuable assets for a company, even if it doesn’t seem that way on the surface. Business paperwork helps you protect your IP, whether it starts out as nothing more than a company name and logo or comprises incredibly sophisticated code that is the heart of your revolutionary app.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP. Integrate PS Work Into Sales & Marketing Processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2018

” According to the authors, just like TCP/IP was adopted massively so as to optimize processes in all industries, so will blockchain technology. Finance is perhaps one of the sectors that will eventually go all in on the blockchain.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2016

Speaking intelligently about your company’s current (and future) performance means regular check-ins with your finances. Look no further than Google and Oracle , and you’ll see that no company is immune from IP impasses. To become part of the surviving half, use these methods to ensure your startup’s structure stands strong.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2018

You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. If your IP is unique and at the heart of your startup, you definitely need legal help to protect your business. If IP isn’t terribly important to your startup, you can seek alternative legal solutions. Intellectual property creation. Regulation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This power is wielded through a combination of a country’s diplomacy, information, its military capabilities, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. IP & Protected Personal Information Theft. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s s primary great power competitor. Do you agree with the current doctrine?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Attract investors and financing. The startups that typically receive the most dollars in first-time financings are ones that have at least four things going for them: Experience in related fields. Intellectual property (IP). No strategy leads to no decisions or poor decisions. Scalability.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Why are you so strongly sold on royalty licensing as the most effective way to finance a tech-based early stage company? Email readers, continue here…] Arthur: This is a matter between the owner of your IP (you) and the would-be user of your IP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

To attract investors and financing. The startups that typically receive the most dollars in first-time financings are ones that have at least four things going for them: Experience in related fields. Intellectual property (IP). No strategy leads to no decisions or poor decisions. Scalability.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Why are you so strongly sold on royalty licensing as the most effective way to finance a tech-based early stage company? Email readers, continue here…] Arthur: This is a matter between the owner of your IP (you) and the would-be user of your IP.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Now, in cases of important hacks that risk consumers personal information or could damage their finances or reputation, businesses must formally inform the GDPR within 72 hours and any affected consumers. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’ve always felt television, in the limit, will be delivered over IP. Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. The way our traditional television content is produced, financed, and distributed is balled up in a big legacy with a lot of inertia.

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Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2020

There could also be the consequence of IP theft, loss of company privacy or the loss of customer privacy. Don’t allow an unsuspecting email attack to ruin your finances or your reputation. Decide ahead of time whether you will ever pay a ransom, and if so, under what circumstances. appeared first on BoardEffect.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2019

You Can Use Your IP Rights For Leverage. If you are in possession of a valuable patent, then you are able to use the value of that patent as collateral when you are financing to grow your business. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

There are many companies with phenomenal IP that is truly differentiated but where the original executive team squandered their opportunity due to inability to sell, market or service customers. There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. I saved my main point for last. ” (Warren Buffett). .

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’ve always felt television, in the limit, will be delivered over IP. Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. The way our traditional television content is produced, financed, and distributed is balled up in a big legacy with a lot of inertia.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

upgrades to processes to create deeper integration with Finance & Strategy teams. I’ll give you one guess as to how much our VP of Finance loves this capability. :). Our innovative approach… Due to non-public IP, it is a cluster I can’t tell you much about. It is powered by the union of: 1. I see you nodding your head.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . In this post, I outlined why the Lightning Network matters and recent developments around its two major use cases: payments/finance and Web3. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

A great finance leader is on top of your numbers with such precision that you don’t have to worry about it. But a great finance leader isn’t just budgeting but he or she is an consummate planning and they won’t take s**t from you about why you need to avoid hiring more staff until you close new contracts or raise money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Further, acquisition offers other advantages such as easier financing, instant economies of scale, and new market penetration.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. You own the IP you create. You’re a small fish. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Further reading: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Typology. Flexible VC offers you this.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Startup lawyers can help you decide on which structure is the best for you based on your finances, plans and goals. Startup lawyers specializing in intellectual property (IP) can help you file relevant patent applications. Partnership Agreements. to resolve future conflicts.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. Previously posted on PEHub.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. I really just want to champion Finance 101 to entrepreneurs. There were no metrics. So a convertible note was easier.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.   Growth financing, for example. " We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.

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ithacaVC

JULY 30, 2011

Brad Feld just sent out his first Finance Fridays post called “Getting Started -Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment” This post is not about financial statement literacy, but is meant to begin setting the stage for the hypothetical company that will be the subject of the Finance Fridays series. Do you agree?”

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

The reality is lots of companies – many of them quite promising – have already undergone, or will be facing, next financings which “clean up” old cap tables. And fascinating new advances (and needs) in AI, climate, biology, etc are driving tech-IP driven startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. You can see the entire presentation here.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2023

If the purchase is being sent to a weird shipping address or is coming from an odd IP address (say from out of country), you may want to pause the transaction until you confirm that it’s legitimate. When possible, you want to identify suspicious transactions and block them. Doing so could save you from chargebacks and other hassles.

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