Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.   I’ve sat down with entrepreneurs and a copy of a term sheet guide I like [ “Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ” by Alex Wilmerding, Aspatore Press.] The Valuation Question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. entrepreneur startup name intellectual property trademark' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

A major piece of the business plan will be your capitalization strategy demonstrating the milestone timeline discussed above as well as the effects of accomplished milestones on the company’s future valuation. Intellectual Property. If your business can secure any intellectual property rights now would be the time to do it.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A major piece of the business plan will be your capitalization strategy demonstrating the milestone timeline discussed above as well as the effects of accomplished milestones on the company’s future valuation. Intellectual property. If your business can secure any intellectual property rights now would be the time to do it.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Button-down IP ownership and assignment issues (see post here ). Don’t issue stock options unless a proper option plan is in place and a valuation has been done in compliance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code (see post here ). Indeed, we have done more than 300 Startup Packages and the appeal is obvious: no billable hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? Make sure you own your IP. Not worth it. Starting with 25% is even harder. Assemble a team.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Trick 1: Pay excessive amounts for rights to use brands names, intellectual property or other non physical assets the parent company owns. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes. The government makes the valuation, and sets the rate payable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Miraculously it all turned out ok.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Valuations. I was approached with one sweat equity offer that placed the valuation of the company at >$5 million pre-money and before even a seed round of funding. I would be very wary of accepting a valuation like this, simply because I’m not qualified and as a consultant, I shouldn’t have to be. Unseen Metrics.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. Xtranormal. Presentation tools. Login System. Crowdfactory.

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