Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Act Like a Startup.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. Building the prototype can be fun.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property LLC Social Media China 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Business— when a company is acquired for its actual business (revenue and earnings). Pointcast was one of the first Internet applications to catch fire. Was Google in the search market or the portal market? Clearly, in retrospect, they were in the search market. These kinds of deals typically range between $25M and $250M.

Acquisition 78

Acquisition Technical Review Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 78

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item.

Valuation 234

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Newco, Inc.”)

Intellectual Property 139

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

In addition, they demoed to the paper management research group at the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange project (a joint project between the Stanford Law School and Computer Science department to help computers understand copyright and create a marketplace for content). Who is the main buyer(s) and what are their motivations?

Cloud 228

Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 228

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The SBA’s database lets you search for licensing requirements by state and business type. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. That means you need to prepare for the ups and downs of inconsistent revenue. any license or permit fees. The Legal Stuff.

Business Plan 64

Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Virtually every major online venture that has done well has been replicated elsewhere in the world to cater to local markets, with copycats raking in revenues and leaving innovators fuming. The clones. If a business is online, there’s a copy (or several) of it. Taking legal action.

Intellectual Property 136

Intellectual Property Differentiation Reputation Germany 136

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). Not impressed?

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. The search network involves pay-per-click advertising (or Paid Search). Not impressed?

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

The SBA’s database lets you search for licensing requirements by state and business type. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. That means you need to prepare for the ups and downs of inconsistent revenue. any license or permit fees. Build a web presence.

Business Plan 79

Business Plan Limited Liability Company Small Business Sales 79

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

Online Dating Magazine estimates that there are more than 2,500 online dating services on the Internet in the USA with 2-3 new services opening every single day. After years of dramatic growth in the 70-80 percent range, online dating revenues have leveled off in the US, according to a recent study. Intellectual property is tough.

Intellectual Property 124

Intellectual Property Social Network Matching Viral 124

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Use Google and search for “ruby&# or “python&# of “php&# and “meetup&# or “interest group&# or “user group&# and your city (or the nearest big metro area or technology center). You’re asking someone to take a chance that with the code they deliver you can get funding or gain some revenue traction.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth! And the new internet firms? Facebook – about $80 a year per person. Numbers for Australian market.

Government 79

Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Fusing and making sense of sensor data (detecting threats in optical /SAR imagery, classifying aircraft based on radar returns, searching for anomalies in radio frequency signatures, etc.) Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – Good for algorithms; compression, video encoding, cryptocurrency, genomics, search.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417