Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

Technical Cofounder 334

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 334

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder.

Equity 315

Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. When founders are wrong (which happens often), that initial seed round runs out quickly, requiring another round of funding — typically referred to as a bridge round.

Cofounder 127

Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Cofounder Seed Capital 127

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Founders that learn are more successful. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Solo founders take 3.6x Most successful founders are driven by impact rather than experience or money.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported. Conclusion.

Europe 100

Europe Software Review IP Affiliate 100

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

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.”

Artificial Inteligence 408

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 408

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!

IP 114

IP Intellectual Property Equity Liquidity Event 114

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

Founders, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen past crises, cycles, and downturns as an investor and as a founder. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. March 30, 2020. I’m one of you. It’s OK to be scared. You must be nuts.

Founder 174

Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Internet scale. At this level, as a founder you feel SO CLOSE to profitability that many say, “I’m going to keep my costs really low this year to try and hit profitability. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. So which company is better run?

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . – Go public.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 26, 2010

Now if your startup received a $5MM Series A investment from a venture capital firm, how many developers (that you can recall) would come out of the shadows of the internet and claim to be your startup’s long lost founder? Lost Founders. How to Lock Down the IP.

IP 57

IP Intellectual Property Founder Stock Options 57

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. We dug in deep looking for names that would somehow represent some part of us as founders. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural.

Naming 149

Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 149

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. You can read other highlights of the interview on Techcrunch.

IP 187

IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. And in fact, my co-founder is one of those, right?

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Seed Stage 273

Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder B2B 273

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. When I negotiated crowdSPRING’s initial contract for internet and IP phone service, we had a few important deal terms (price, reliability, redundancy) and I made those terms very clear in the beginning. Ross Kimbarovsky is founder and CEO at crowdSPRING and Startup Foundry.

Partner 171

Partner Employee Non-Compete IP 171

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. Thanks to Rachel Whynot, FOUNDER FREEDOM ! #22-

Naming 105

Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 105

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I have been thinking lately about the impact of generative AI on the future of the internet. In the near-term we will have to figure out copyright, proper accreditation and IP issues. In the most simplest terms, blockchain technology offers the opportunity to build a new internet. But that is not very scalable.

Generative AI 88

Generative AI Media ChatGPT Social Media 88

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. Next door in China, too, we see the government being careful with information sharing online within its own borders and restricting access to much of the Internet. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators.

Netherlands 143

Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I believe that looking at hardware curves is always simpler and more accurate. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Not only are they just entering the mid-age “sweet spot” (between 35 and 50 years old) when most founders go solo, but they also possess high degrees of pragmatism. A lightweight laptop or two-in-one device with automatic cloud-syncing options is another must-have, as is a reliable data plan and internet connection.

New Jersey 124

New Jersey IP Global Internet 124

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

So bowing to popular demand the 2009 blog posts are now available on Amazon on a portable device which provides instant and random access to any post and does not require power or an internet connection. Am I a Founder? The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy………… 65. Now available on Amazon.

Silicon Valley 220

Silicon Valley Customer Development IP Developer 220

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Wintegra founders Kobi Ben-Zvi and Robert O’Dell will join PMC-Sierra. Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital. Otherwise it's a great idea.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

CTO 78

CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

PPC 121

PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web.

Software 112

Software Media Social Media Advertising 112

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. Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition.

Elevator Pitch 103

Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 103

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

He is the co-founder of McKee Wallwork, a nationally recognized marketing advisory firm that made the Inc. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value for listeners and for brands. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

Technical Review 64

Technical Review Cofounder Kansas City Tulsa 64

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. IP Location Tools. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues. Founders Workbench. Xtranormal.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. Engage an IP lawyer for more thorough analysis). Below are some examples of types of names that have been used to build major Internet brands. Typically the last name(s) of the founder(s). May 14, 2012 – Event Recap. April 11, 2012 – Event Recap. Company Directory. Startup PR.

Naming 45

Naming Startup Technical Review Cofounder 45