Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Any type of design.

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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. Board and Stockholder Votes.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

In addition, there are some blockchain businesses, an example, Blockdraw Technologies, where its founder not only has decades of experience in business, but his time at AGCC showed him everything that he needed to know about how to run a casino business properly. Governments will not stand for it, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In addition to Nand, the class also heard from Chris Lynch, founder of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), now the CEO of Rebellion Defense, a new vendor of AI to the DOD. Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.”

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In doing so, OpenAI joins IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Getty Images, Shutterstock and Adobe who’ve also explicitly said they’ll indemnify generative AI customers over IP rights claims. There’s a reason why OpenAI offers to cover the legal fees of business customers sued for copyright infringemen t.

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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. Knowbella founder Jason Barkeloo answered some questions about his company.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. That will take a long time to settle. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Notice what is missing from this list of priorities: The company itself – that is, a business entity, most often a corporation , that will own the entire business (however defined), issue equity to founders, take investment capital , enter into contracts, make sales, pay employees and contractors, and so forth. Good stuff!

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

One of the questions we’re often asked is, “What Government funding is available for startups in New Zealand?” You know exactly what problem you want to solve, and how you’re going to solve it. ” shortly followed by, “I wonder if there’s any funding for startups from the Government?”

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. Founders need to see eye-to-eye or things will be very difficult. Speak human! (0:46:20)

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. Blog Categories.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the near-term we will have to figure out copyright, proper accreditation and IP issues. And blockchain technology can also help clarify ownership and governance if done right. If you are a founder thinking about how Gen AI will change our digital future and have ideas, we would love to hear from you!

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Founder community.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). For example, the city of Amsterdam is currently tendering for a third ’tech’ university in the city together with an investment fund and IP attached.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Welcome to the future.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Kalanick, former investor BFF turned highly disappointed by founder behavior. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Usually the founders duke it out among themselves as to titles and responsibilities and relative shareholdings. Many founders assume any flat surface is a filing and storage area.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group. Patented Technology?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait for a curriculum change or some government grant money to come through (although they just got Kaufmann money for it). If there’s anything that hackers and founders hate, it’s an ivory tower attitude. They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2017

John Jantsch: Do you know marketers are collecting everything you do online and they are selling it to anybody who pays and our government is okay with that. So, today check out my conversation with Ryan Dochuk, co-founder of the VPN service called Tunnelbear. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tunnelbear. I think we all need it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

and British governments have forced much of the rest of the world to create a more transparent financial system in which bad actors are more likely to be reported to authorities. HW: You were co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, one of the most successful podcasts out there. But the U.S. But I don’t send them.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

Sansam also maintains that small businesses aren’t put off by the group’s association with government. One of the other differences between IC tomorrow-secured funding and other sources is that qualification for the cash depends on the company receiving it owning all of its intellectual property (IP).

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

I have been reading your articles but wonder with our type of dream the same rules apply since it would be tied into the government. In your situation, you may be able to qualify for some kind of a government grant, or certainly a loan. I am retired but formerly have been a marketing director and involved in CPA financial services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. We can't change the past, but we do have a say in the future if we're willing.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. dual class governance w/ founder having majority voting control). one-time purchase offsetting future leasing expenses).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 27, 2012

Did you know that Professors and Faculty at Stanford get to keep the IP (intellectual property) or their inventions? They found that contrary to the popular belief, they make more money from donations, by incentivizing faculty to commercialize their ideas, rather than owning all the IP and let it sit of the shelf.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Y – Stats show that in Israel, in all exits over $50 million and above, 82% of the time the CEO was the founder. The Chinese government has invented a new form of social democracy. So if you think they don’t care about IP, then you are wrong. The soul, the DNA, whatever you call it, is of great importance.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Dan Ushman is the Co-Founder and CMO of Singlehop. Other network security measures include making access to the e-commerce site’s backend available for only a handful of IPs or using direct SSL VPN access. Those times are long behind us. Optimization: A joint endeavor between provider and merchant.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. It is important governments don’t simply provide healthcare, education, defence and the like. This was a seismic shift from where we had been and it has defined the government economic playbook.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I have to admit my West Coast bias here, having learned the ropes at a large Silicon Valley firm ; it makes little sense to me to have investor’s counsel drafting documents that are woven into the fabric of a company’s governance and capital structure, with which the company will likely be living for years after the investment is made.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

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