Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. So I can appreciate why public stock investors would be leery of Zynga and why the stock price has been punished recently.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. Prehype , Rocket Internet , and numerous others. GOOG); Actua Corporation (ACTA, formerly Internet Capital Group); GSV Capital (GSVC); Harris & Harris Group, Inc. engineers, designers, business developers).

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Additionally, you should put whatever agreement you reach to paper, even if you have not yet incorporated or had your legal counsel draw up the founder stock paperwork. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. As a financial planner, money was my stock in trade; however, I discovered true wealth was in good health and relationships.

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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? Thus, it’s wise to lock down your startup’s IP early to prevent the lost founder problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2016

Internet hackers pose a credible threat to businesses and to their customers. Target not only spent $240 million to replace customers’ cards, but sales and the company’s stock price took a major hit from the resulting public fallout. The American Bar Association gives a great overview of safeguarding confidential information.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Consequently, it may result in higher trade volume, FDI, and enhanced liquidity in the stock markets. Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. Its domestic economy expanded by 0.6%

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). Not in my view.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

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Founder Vesting Intellectual Property Stock Options IP 365

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Enter into agreements between Newco and founders, early contributors, outside advisors or service providers under which they contribute or assign all intellectual property related to the company’s business to Newco in exchange for the issuance of founders’ stock (Common Stock). Make escrow arrangements for restricted stock (i.e.,

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Should the Warhol foundation, owners of Andy Warhol’s IP be paid out if you decide to “paint” a bottle of Scope in the AI-trained style of his Campbell’s Soup Can? You can’t train your ML tools on the cesspool that is the whole internet and not expect some potentially dangerous results.

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Generative AI IP Open Source Artificial Inteligence 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. The way to getrich from a startup is to maximize the companys chances of succeeding,not to maximize the amount of stock you retain. You dont want mere voting; you need unanimity.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The premise is that with the rise of Facebook on the Internet & Apple “Apps&# on mobile, the Internet is becoming more closed. If you have 20 minutes I think you’ll enjoy watching.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They use geo/ip to work out where I am. Shows me again if the product is in stock. Underneath are two, mostly likely stock, photos of Farmers "Chuck" and "Frank" bearing copy that is almost certainly lawyer-approved – it is bereft of any passion. Everyone on the Internet loves speed.

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Web Design Marketing Security 164

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. I felt like that was an opportunity to make even a bigger impact in providing more people with internet access was providing them with access to healthy food. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Where do you think the internet is taking us for the future? How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? The way I do it.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Currently Obsessed Joe Heitzeberg – Entrepreneur | Tech Geek | MBA Home About Me Joe Heitzeberg is an internet entrepreneur who has started and sold two companies. i never thought about it like investing in stocks before. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. You alluded to this in your post.

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Valuation Channel Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 42

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Tips: Build your own device lab and keep it well-stocked. Score B2B marketing campaigns in minutes by joining IP detection and company scoring. We’re in a bubble, we get disconnected from how the rest of the world uses the Internet. If you’re not doing functionality testing, you’re not optimizing. Use virgins; first interaction.

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San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

There are personal factors that come into play like real estate value, stock market activity, etc. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) : network transfer protocol, basically it defines requirements for network communications. A typical VC (A round) will reserve at least 100-200% of initial investment.

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Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net 302

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. If your desire was to make yourself look like an ignorant internet troll … I believe you have succeeded.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.

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