Up and Running
DECEMBER 8, 2021
But the value that a strong patent portfolio can give your company is unmatched. Broader patent protection for key products. As a general rule, the fewer patents covering a product, the easier it is to design a competing product around that protection. Yes, patents are expensive. Market-driven strategy.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). credit App Annie. social media.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale. I move on.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale. I move on.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Matt Blumberg, who runs one of Fred’s portfolio companies, Return Path, follows up with an additional three : Don’t be a bottleneck (make sure you aren’t holding up people’s work). Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company). Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.
Gust
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.
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