Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Internet scale.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As we are spending more of our resources online, we believe that a “new Internet” is being created – with the consumer at its centre – on top of a strong tech infrastructure: 5g/6g, cloud, edge computing, new powerful GPUs, spatial computing, decentralisation etc. . The “new internet” aka “Metaverse” .

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This causes a huge amount of pain and discomfort for millions of pencil pushers around the world; your startup company may not be immune to this. Jobs that are most at risk for carpal tunnel syndrome include those that do a lot of typing (a common feature among most startup tech companies). Voice over IP systems.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Startups that pivot once or twice times raise 2.5x better user growth.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. If nothing else, it shows how many billions Meta is willing to commit in order to advance Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the future of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games. but still lost $2.8

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

We are in the experimentation stage, where brands, IP, communities, are testing the waters for relevancy, connection with the younger fans, and new income potential. Toya partners with IP holders to create engaging experiences, like Miraculous Ladybug Role Play, which has just won the Best Alternative Game 2022 by Kidscreen.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

A VDR is an internet database in which companies’ share and store private information used during financial transactions. In any large or startup enterprise, fundraising rounds are crucial to business growth. IP Management. Such companies need VDRs to store related IP-documentation. Virtual Data Rooms (VDR). Fundraising.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

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. Although it seems obvious, this stronger tracking of cybersecurity is a key to a safer Internet for everyone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

If your primary goals are flexibility and scalability , internet-housed public cloud models such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure are optimal. If an outage is due to your internet service provider , for example, one part of the plan would be to failover to your secondary line.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

What is a startup really? I don’t fault entrepreneurs for relegating startup legal work to the bottom of their daily triage list; founders are spread incredibly thin. It’s easier than ever to find example documents on the Internet, use a service to file your certificate of incorporation or trademark application, and so forth.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Welcome to the Internet bubble.) In a startup success isn’t about just execution, it’s how well we could take our original hypothesis and learn, discover , iterate and execute. This time it was serious.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

All you need is a memory card, a static IP address, access to the Raspberry Pi interface, broadband connection, and a power supply. Using Raspberry Pi for a VPN will not be able to change the location of your IP address, but you will still be able to connect external devices to your home network through it. As an email server.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Low fee: Lightning supports any size payment all the way down to sub 1 cent micropayments, which will unleash all kinds of new internet native, global commerce and even new payment types like “streaming” – imagine paying by the second for watching a movie or accessing car insurance. . 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A great number of startups and enterprises have gotten an opportunity to open offices all around the world and keep in touch over the Internet. You can find the best VPN services here and choose the most effective and reliable VPN for feeling free and safe when surfing the Internet. Safeguard Your Business Data.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo!’s How To Think About The Future. Author howerl.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

As an investor in early stage startups in gaming and metaverse/web3 at Remagine Ventures , I naturally consume a lot of content on this topic, and this post also helps me digest and separate signal from noise. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. You can download a copy here. Bored Ape M&Ms.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. Venture studios work as co-founders with a founding team, with the larger ones assigning dedicated internal teams for each startup idea (e.g., Prehype , Rocket Internet , and numerous others. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 5, 2020

Here is price intelligence for startups. Web scraping (also known as data scraping ) is a process of gathering data from the Internet. As you do so, you pick up the IP address of a proxy masking your real one with it. Such protection can detect bot-like behavior and block the IP address where the bot-like traffic comes from.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. The post An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis appeared first on Hi, I'm David G.

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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. Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits.

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 8, 2016

I’m not a fan of the term “Internet of Things” (IoT), but it is the best way to describe a future where more and more devices are Internet-connected. I’ve seen a ton of startup pitches, and several big companies ( Xively , PTC , etc. ) 4G/LTE is a pipe for IP packets. are pursuing IoT platforms.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Ultra Light Startups®. What is an Ultra Light Startup? Name A Startup. Startup PR. Name A Startup. I’m often in the process of naming a startup. The following is a list of qualities of a good name for your startup. Engage an IP lawyer for more thorough analysis). Who We Are. Sponsorship.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits. As a result, one of the trickier things co-founders tackle is determining the equity split amongst the founding group of individuals.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. They do their best to impress us with their complex payment processes and rarely forget to mention that they are a large company and we’re a tiny startup.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Startup businesses are known to ignore the importance of putting up online security measures because they think that no one could be interested in small businesses. The same applies to market strategies over the internet. Track every gadget with an IP address. Secure Your Space. of the violations are perpetrated via hacking.

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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? The answer to this question depends on how well your startup secures its intellectual property.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A fter years of talking with many of you in the Israeli startup industry, investors and entrepreneurs alike, I was invited to present some tips for entrepreneurs at the Launch48 conference in London this weekend. The talk was titled “Tips to make your startup attractive for investors&#. Sell your team, not your advisors.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

link] A compliment or IP rip off with me and @ rentoid as the victims? I was a bit annoyed at first. and sent out a tweet to assess the mood of my army of advisers on twitter. I tweeted the following: Not sure what to think of this? The responses were varied, but all were within the theme of this person clearly does not get what it takes.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Small startups rarely have a recruiting professional on their team — or even someone who has enough spare time to imitate a recruiting professional. One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup. The site grew out of Startup Digest , a mailing list of startup events.

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Andrew Payne

AUGUST 3, 2011

If you’re one of the five people that read this blog, you know I’ve become negative on many pure-software/Internet/mobile entrepreneurial projects. Sometimes, IP can be the core asset, when there’s real technology with high-quality, issued, in-force patents, and relevant expertise in the team.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It is surprising how much data your Internet service provider (ISP) collects from you. If you use the IP address given to you by your ISP, your online activity is probably far from save. DNS is a graduated naming systems for devices connected to the Internet. Essentially, DNS is the white pages of the Internet.

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