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14 Points To Consider When Structuring A Deal

YoungUpstarts

No matter what you do, you want to make sure that in the process that you protect your intellectual property, have non-disclosure agreements in place, if possible non-circumvents. What is a huge success for me in the terms? Lock down rights and security. Balance the risks to your reputation.

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Open Positions at the ATI

Austin Startup

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. The Assistant Director will manage the deal flow process and lead our due diligence efforts to admit new members.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Regulatory Issues – What are they?

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

Even if a mobile app developer manages to cross the distribution hurdle and starts raking in some revenue, the next challenge is even worse: getting copied. In China, respecting copyright and intellectual property is still something that locals do not really practice. They end up infringing other patents when going abroad.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

The revenue of products that contain chips is worth tens of t rillions of dollars. Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. iPhones, PCs, airplanes, cloud computing, etc.), Specialized Materials. Chip Foundries.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.