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10 Concrete Steps to Assure Business Innovation Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Continuous innovation is required to survive in all businesses, beginning with a startup, and increasing in importance as your business matures. Brands. This is an imperative. No risk, no innovation. -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 What to do About that Chip on Your Shoulder? Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP. I’m fond of saying that I look for entrepreneurs that have a chip on their shoulder. That they have something to prove. That they’re not afraid to stick their noses up to the establishment. have always felt this way. It leads to bad decisions. -
BEYONDVC | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 Startups and Intellectual Property (IP) Lately questions about Intellectual Property or IP have been cropping up left and right. Eliot Durbin (my partner at BOLDstart Ventures) and I had a long discussion this morning in preparation for his panel today about IP and patents. Yes, having core tech or IP matters but patents are a different question altogether. -
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ARCTICSTARTUP | FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 Rovio Sneak Peeks Angry Birds Successor Rovio's Ville Heijari commented on the acquisition of the game IP to 148 Apps that, "We are currently reworking the title to enhance it, and getting ready to re-introduce it in a true “expect the unexpected” Rovio style launch to an even larger audience". It is this game that will begin to determine how good Rovio really is.
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READWRITESTART | SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 6 Startup Lessons From the Complexity of Cell Phones Minutes became ultra cheap , thanks to voice over IP telephony. Back when we first started using PCs, we all wished that they would become as easy to use as a telephone. Well, we got our wish, not because computers got easier to use but because phones are now so darn complicated. The Phone's Transformation. Lessons for Startups. Analysis -
Startups Need the ‘Why’ Before the ‘What’ to Build Intellectual property (IP). All too many startups are founded simply on the basis of a new and exciting technology invented by an industrious technologist. The right approach is to start by solving a problem causing real pain to a large number of customers willing to pay real money for a solution. Capitalize on strengths and opportunities. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Have Brand, Will License As a brand owner, if somebody's simply taking your IP and making products out of it without signing a license with you, it's theft, plain and simple. Think you've got a brand with a life of its own? Make these smart moves now. You know the cautionary tales. The Beatles sold off 90% ownership of the rights to their likenesses. It's a failure. -
CHRIS DIXON | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 The risks of being a small investor in a private company Small investors invest in entity 1 that licenses IP from entity 2. Value of IP increases and entity 2 is sold and eventually cancels entity 1′s license, making entity 1 worthless. With the passage of the JOBS act , it seems that many more Americans will soon be able to buy equity in private companies. Here are a few examples. -
BLOG.EXPENSIFY.COM | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Learn more… Saturday edit: Wow, quite a response to this. Some additional comments at the end. Sunday edit : Still going! More comments at the end. Thanks ez, whoever you are! -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Great Start-ups Succeed on Products, not Patents Here's why protecting your IP should stay off your to-do list. The real cost of getting a patent You have to design an IP protection policy around your business, not the other way around. Protecting IP can wait Patents can offer value to companies. Your No. job is to get to market and start making money. John D. -
When Old IP Comes Back From the Dead What does that have to do with your IP strategy? There are multiple types of IP in this example. If this holographic entertainment goes on tour, it could turn into a whole lot of very real money because of what all that IP makes possible. Some of your IP will need some sort of registered protection but much of it probably won't. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 10 Ways to Protect Your Intellectual Property Not too long ago, defensible IP was one of the top things venture capitalists wanted to see in a startup. After all, creating and maintaining a robust IP portfolio is expensive. If your startup starts to scale quickly, a strong IP portfolio will be vitally important to your ability to play the long game. File as fast as you can. - The Twitter "Patent Hack"
So IP that was partially funded by our firm was used to sue other portfolio companies. Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. You can read the entire set of provisions on GitHub. -
DUCT TAPE MARKETING | THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 How and Why to Create Smarter Content To gain full access to this level of personalization you must use a tool such as Google Analytics or Spring Metrics (a client) that can allow you to access publicly available data on your visitors such as IP address and location. How and Why to Create Smarter Content This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Starts with analytics. Now you can. -
READWRITESTART | TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012 For IP Security at Startups, "Later" Isn't Soon Enough IP theft is happening a lot more in startups," says Chris Porter, senior security analyst at Verizon and coauthor of Verizon's recently released 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. IP theft and other data breaches at startups are definitely trending up.". No amount of Red Bull can save your startup once your IP has been stolen. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 9 Ways to Get More Out of Google Analytics Filter IP addresses Certain visits to your website distort your analytics. By using Google Analytics to filter these IP addresses out of the equation, you get a purer set of visitor stats. Already know and love Google's data tools? Here are nine cool features you may not be using--but should. clicking play on a video player). -
ARCTICSTARTUP | MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012 Angry Birds "TV" Series To Come This Fall It was also mentioned that Rovio will be producing completely new IP this year, things that have nothing to do with Angry Birds or the familiar gameplay mechanics Rovio's head of animation, Nick Dorra, spoke at the MIPTV conference in Cannes where he announced Rovio will begin producing weekly short form animations, The Guardian reports. - WordPress Page Caching Faster than Light — @WPEngine releases TachyCache
In a joint venture with CERN, WP Engine has developed a TCP/IP layer on top of a faster-than-light neutrino beam, delivering page content in negative time. Dateline April 1, 2012. Austin TX. Today WP Engine proudly announces a new WordPress page-caching technology which actually delivers pages before the user clicks the link! Announcements -
CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 Kernel Debugging 101 The code at the end of the previous section tells us a null pointer dereference was the cause of the crash, and it gives us some clues as to what happened: IP: [<ffffffff8142bb40>] __netif_receive_skb+0x60/0x6e0. A dark fog had been rolling in that night, and we had been setting up a new cluster of servers. CentOS 6.2, net/core/dev.c: -
ARCTICSTARTUP | TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012 Update On the AppCampus Initiative With Will Cardwell Most importantly young entrepreneurs don’t have to give away any equity in their company, IP rights, or take on debt. Cardwell has ben understandably busy, but was kind enough to give us more details on how the program will operate, and what the program means means for the local community. There is no direct academic credit. -
ARCTICSTARTUP | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012 CrowdIPR Offers Freemium Plan For Intelectual Property Crowdsourcing Service Also In early February, CrowdIPR also received $135 000 of additional funding from Northstar Ventures and IP Group, both UK-based venture capital firms. Part of the reason behind going for this kind of approach is our aim to make the IP system more accessible," says CEO Raidma. -
Made in USA (Again): Why Manufacturing Is Coming Home It gets granular, too, trying to quantify what previously had been considered unquantifiable, including items like "the expected percentage price of IP risk" or the "Opportunity cost due to delivery and quality: lost orders, slow response, lost customers, [as a percentage] of price." But the industry has changed direction. The list goes on. -
LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 Crossing Boundaries What is the likelihood of disintermediation – how much unique IP are you bringing to the equation that would be prevent the partner or your potential clients from later going direct? The long-standing divisions between the public and private sectors, between emerging and developed markets, have limited transfer of relevant niche technologies. -
ASK THE VC | TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012 Parker: Open Source and For-Profit Companies To protect companies with original IP from smarter, faster, aggressive companies who catch the imagination of consumers and advertisers. I’ve been thinking about advancing innovation in the software industry since I was in a PhD program at MIT Sloan School in the 1980′s studying under Eric von Hippel. Change is needed. -
CODE AS CRAFT | TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012 Making it Virtually Easy to Deploy on Day One The first thing that happens is we find a valid IP in the subnet range, and we use nsupdate to add the DNS information about the VM. At Etsy we have one hard and fast rule for new Engineers on their first day: deploy to production. We’ve talked a lot in the past about our deployment , metrics , and testing processes. -
ALIEN ENTREPRENEUR | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 The Alien Entrepreneur: My Takeaways from MobileX Cincy What I found interesting was that his work outside of Ascendum is presumably not covered by his employment agreement with Ascendum, in terms of IP ownership. The Alien Entrepreneur. Im addicted to entrepreneurship, currently participating in multiple startups. CTO at ProspectStream , ScopiaRx , and SaaS Capital. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 Luxury Outhouse for Dogs: PetLawn ” They debuted their start-up, International Pet Solutions (IPS), and their suite of pet care products in September 2010 at SuperZoo, a pet product trade show in Las Vegas. ” Numerous stores expressed interest in selling IPS products, and the growth since then has been explosive. “But it didn’t freak us out. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 America's Coolest College Start-ups 2012 In the social media craze, Patrick Ip, Sonia Chokshi and Kavya Shankar, saw more than a means to network and build on relationship. The 2012 class of our annual America's Coolest College Start-ups are fresh, innovative, founded with a social mission, and may very-well be the next Google or Facebook. spot on iTunes. million. and Africa. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 Social Change Through Social Media: Kip Solutions In the last few years, the use of social media has risen exponentially around the world, creating new communities and outlets for communication—something Patrick Ip, Sonia Chokshi and Kavya Shankar decided was an opportunity to trigger social change. ’” says Ip. ” -
SOFTWARE BY ROB | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3) I hired a lawyer with experience in IP website acquisitions to draft up a custom agreement. Photo by psiaki. This is final installment of a 3-part series covering my acquisition of HitTail. Every question below has been asked via email, comment or Twitter over the past four weeks. How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh Every time YouSendIt's engineering team found the source of the attack and blocked the IP address, Shaikh launched an attack from a new one. Then they showed him documentation that the money for the sale, about $18,000, had been transferred online using Shaikh's IP address. Then the cyberattacks started. Would Mahler like to join? -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 Bad Technology That Won't Die You typically have to type in an IP address like 192.168.0.1 Usually hardware and software improve with time. But not always. Here are 5 things that aren't getting any better--and won't go away either. The speed at which technology evolves has never been faster. And what's worse, the thing never seems to go away either. The problem? -
ARCTICSTARTUP | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012 Pingdom Joins ISPs As A Local Internet Registry Pingdom , the website uptime and monitoring company, has just become a Local Internet Registry (LIR), meaning it has been assigned a block of IP addresses. In a similar way, we can use the same IP addresses in a number of locations using anycast. As a LIR, we also get control over a certain number of blocks of IP addresses. -
MCSTARTUP BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 How to protect your business idea when raising capital This “how do I protect my IP” or “how do I protect my idea” question is near the top of people’s minds, and if you are of the technical type, it seems to be question number one. Rujul wrote: I'm planning on starting a new business with my friend, and was wondering how I can protect my idea. Could it happen? -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Why Co-working Spaces Actually Work So she joined Link and saw benefits: One day someone was in for a tour and Liz found out he is an IP attorney. They're low-cost, and provide the typical office amenities--conference rooms, photocopiers, etc. But there are other less tangible benefits for entrepreneurs. What are these? Opening your own business is scary. -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Clean Up Before Raising Funding Deal with IP Assignment as quickly as possible; you don’t want to leave any loopholes in there that will scare investors away. Contractors need to sign proper agreements, with non-disclosures and IP assignment. (Powered by LaunchBit ). Raising money is a dirty job, but someone has to do it right? Get your house in order. -
LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012 Launching Tech Ventures - Untitled Article Distribution and retail divisions were already consulted on how to sell merchandise for non-existing IP based on a vision for a new blockbuster interactive product category. ) - Testing vs. Brand: Does testing hurt a brand? Can large corporations be “Lean”? Managers were concerned of false advertisement and negative brand impact. -
How to find that first big customer The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live. To get your question answered , email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com. didn’t. -
FELD THOUGHTS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Compromise vs. Problem Solving great panel full of engineers titled Tech Tutorial Backdrop: An All IP Network and Its Policy Implications came next, followed by a talk from Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. I spent all day Sunday at Silicon Flatirons’ Digital Broadband Migration Conference. David Cohen (EVP of Comcast), Larissa Herda (CEO of tw telecom inc.), -
LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 Launching Tech Ventures - Untitled Article Sales Partnerships- a lean way to scale startups? By Aditya Dhanrajani Recently we have been discussing the challenges startups face managing sales as they scale. We have covered some of the theory developed by David Skok on the cash flow trough created and the effect that hiring sales people have on it. First is cost. Second is product. -
LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 Launching Tech Ventures - Untitled Article Idea theft, reputational risks: During the collaboration period, dominant partners can learn about proprietary IP, eventually negotiating to bury Dropbox in white label deals, which will destroy its nascent brand and commoditize future services. The challenge of doing business development Two case protagonists (e.g., -
MARK BIRCH | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 The Oracle Way Oracle has already shown itself ready to take aggressive action in its pursuit of protecting its IP in the Google Android lawsuit. enterprise technology tech Oracle startups IP lawsuits business acquisitionsOnce upon a time, Oracle was an industry leader because they provided an innovative product. -
GROWTHINK BLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10 Incredible Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know And I was one of the early adapters of Voice Over IP. I have to admit, I'm not a pioneer by any stretch when it comes to most new technologies. was the last of my friends to get a cell phone. held off on joining Twitter and Facebook until my employees told me I had to do it. was one of the first users of Google's AdWords program. read more. -
TAFFY WILLIAMS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 Have A Great Idea? Hold that Though! In a few situations, this can be an issue,for example: · Presentinginformation before filing patents, copyrights or other IP, may prevent the abilityto protect the inventions or ideas. File IP before interacting – There are filings and inventiondisclosures your counsel can do prior to that special conference, meeting orother event. -
THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. University research is a big business for many schools. They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!). -
ARCTICSTARTUP | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 Videoplaza Secures $12 Million Series B This is a huge market, but Videoplaza is also focusing its efforts towards IP delivered content. Videoplaza has just come out with an announcement that they have secured a $12 million investment aimed for global expansion. The Series B funding comes from Qualcomm Ventures and Innovacom. With this investment the growth is sure to follow. -
CHRIS DIXON | TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012 Who should learn to program? I’d also argue that if you are a non-technical person working at a web company the the first thing you should learn is internet architecture (DNS, http, html, web servers, database, TCP/UDP, IP, etc). There has recently been a lot of talk in the tech world and beyond about getting more people to learn computer programming. startups -
CROWDSPRING BLOG | THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012 Twitter Link Roundup #117 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA And Protect IP – [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Starting a new biz with a friend? ” – [link]. -
ANGEL INVESTING NEWS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012 Protecting IP in Crowdfunded Deals Investors will eventually want to validate the intellectual property (IP) prior to investing but not just to hear about the opportunity. During this phase of the investment process, representatives of the investor group may agree to a non-disclosure agreement as part of their validation of the IP. I wonder. -
VC CAFE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012 Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011 Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 million. -
VC CAFE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012 Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011 Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 million. -
IMMERSIVE WEB | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012 Internet User Defined: A User by Any Other Name… Value – The only info you can know about a visitor is related to their IP address or cookies on their computer. Immersive Web. Internet User Defined. In their press call last week, Google obfuscated the various definitions of a user in online terms. The WSJ takes a small swing at the debate. Visitor. Registered User. Active User. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012 10 Lies Never to Tell Investors Describe your patent strategy and how you have approached protecting your IP. All the confidence in the world won't convince a VC these statements are true. Here's why these 10 fibs hurt you -- and what to say instead. Serial entrepreneur and VC Guy Kawasaki recently wrote a post listing the 10 lies entrepreneurs tell investors. -
ONSTARTUPS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 Startup Branding: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs That question is usually met by a blank stare, but the truth is that level of commitment to IP is what it's going to take to create a category. The following is a guest post by Mike Troiano. Mike is a former New York ad man turned venture-funded entrepreneur, now a Principal at Boston-based Holland-Mark. Is it just picking a name and a logo? -
SOFTWARECEO | THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012 IP licensing It is very clear that they are interested in IP but not our s/w and probably for this reason they have been waiting. Licensing gurus: Appreciate if any one can give me some insights into the following situation: We are "cash-strapped" startup (which startup isn't?, initially). We recently got a patent issued from USPTO. Licensing Issues -
MARK BIRCH | THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012 Letter to the Internet Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. This is why I put a hold on the Protect IP Act and its predecessor over a year ago and introduced a bipartisan alternative last month. Some have called this a stunt. These are bills that should give us pause. -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012 Copyright Registrations: A big hammer for your small company Take Time to Review Your IP Strategy and Protection. As I explained in my last post, January is a great time of year to review your IP protection strategies and see if you need to file additional copyright registrations (and trademark registrations and patent applications)! Benefits of Copyright Registration. 99 cents? Type of Work. -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 IP Review and Update for the New Year January is a great time of year to take stock of your IP protection strategy. If so, you should reevaluate whether: you have taken proper steps to protect your new brand name with trademark and service mark registrations; you own the IP rights to the new core technology; you may be able to file for patent or copyright protection; and. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012 How the Euro Crisis Could Be Good For You domains and IP addresses in Europe has led to a 10 to 20 percent increase in overall site traffic in the last few months. Is the economic turmoil overseas a crisis--or an opportunity? Here's a look at a few savvy American companies reaping the benefits of European market instability. Fourth quarter earnings reports confirm this. dollars." -
THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 If NYC is going to be a real innovation hub, we can't have our own senators supporting SOPA/PIPA Since the DMCA, we’ve basically operated in an environment of “ask forgiveness rather than permission” when it comes to copyright and IP online. Tweet. haven’t spent much time talking about SOPA and PIPA , the two twin bills trying to make their way through Congress right now. It’s basically all in the marketing. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 3 More Reasons SOPA Should Scare You 968 , known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA), and Majority Leader Henry Reid has scheduled a floor vote for January 24, the day the Senate returns. Inc.com joins the ranks of companies hoping that Congress doesn't vote to break the Internet by approving SOPA and PIPA. Here's why. The Senate Judiciary Committee already approved its version, S. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 Meet the Online Mischief-Makers There's ample chance for mischief, especially since Twitter allows you to create up to five accounts in one day from one IP address, she said. These hackers could wreak havoc on your business. We infiltrated their ranks and studied their tactics. It's something that can catch a company by surprise if you don't know where to look for it. - 2012: The Year That Movements Go Mainstream?
4) Wired says that 2011 was the year that IP trumped Civil Liberties. I returned from ten days of skiing with my family last night. I'm on mountain time and plan to stay there until the new year. Staying up late and sleeping late seems to be a good way to bring in the New Year. That leaves a fair bit of time to read and think. -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011 Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not? If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok. One of them is profitability. There is a healthy tension between profits & growth. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 New Anti-Piracy Bill Still Threatens Start-ups Without vocal opposition that makes elected representatives start to weigh major campaign contributions against a lot of people starting their willingness to vote someone out of office, there is a significant chance that a poorly written bill, like so many other extensions to IP protective legislation, could pass. You know, like Dajaz1.com. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 How to Win a Trademark Battle Against a Goliath based “IP Application Development” for about $55,000. As someone at Forbes noted, the initials of IP Application Development spell out IPAD. By knowing their rights, two small companies made Apple and RIM back down over trademark conflicts. You could do the same. But they share something other than smartphones and tablets. -
FRED DESTIN | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011 Five reasons why SOPA is luddite legislation PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. SOPA may not pass. What it tells you about the policymakers outlook on how to defend against piracy and copyright infringement is extremely scary. Forget censorship and job creation for a moment: it's unfair, badly written and ignores the sense of history. Keep going. -
MARK BIRCH | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011 New Life for the US Postal Service This is where the Postal Service could play a role, by transitioning the workforce and organization to send electronic packets to IP addresses instead of physical envelopes to mailboxes. Postal cuts to slow delivery of first-class mail via Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The recent announcement about service cutbacks should come as no surprise. -
CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011 Multilingual User Generated Content and SEO Search engine bots, in their desire to see all content without prejudice, don’t send a browser accept language, aren’t signed-in users with profile locations, and it hardly makes sense to use geo-IP lookups to determine their location. Because By: Lacy Rhoades & David Bernal. Etsy offers a lot of items from a lot of sellers worldwide. -
ARCTICSTARTUP | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011 How Do You Set Up Operations In The US And Why? Interview With Microtask CEO The actual incorporation process is fairly straightforward and lightweight - the complexities lie in the relationship between (the potentially remaining) EU corporation, and related IP/taxation/etc. Microtask has been putting in a lot of effort in the recent year or so to expand their operations beyond the Finnish borders. VM: So far so good. -
FELD THOUGHTS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011 Are You An Internet Entrepreneur In Colorado? Oppose PIPA! If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. I’ve tried to make this letter substantive around the issues so the Senators understand the fundamental issues with the bills. -
TECHBLOG.NETFLIX.COM | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011 Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second. million client writes per second. -
FELD THOUGHTS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011 PBS Newshour on Accelerators Whenever I see stuff like Protect IP and SOPA making progress through Congress (both bills – which if passed – will have a chilling effect on entrepreneurship and job creation) I get frustrated. PBS Newshour has a neat eight minute segment on accelerators. TechStars is featured, along with several others. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 What's Going on With SOPA? The other is the Protect-IP Act. The Stop Online Piracy Act could allow the government and corporations to create website blacklists. That's enraging tech's best and brightest. Every other tweet today has been about SOPA and American Censorship Day. Here's a breakdown of what's going on and why everyone is so concerned. What is SOPA? -
UXDESIGN.SMASHINGMAGAZINE.COM | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. Magazine. Network. Job Board. Smashing Directory. Coding. UXDesign. Wordpress. Designinformer. Facebook. Twitter. Newsletter. All categories. Coding. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 SOPA Would Hurt Start-ups, Not Pirates McSherry: Sometimes people who don’t have the IP rights in question tell a website to take something down because they don’t like content. It's not at all clear that the bill would even succeed in catching online piracy. But it could significantly harm innovation on the Web. Inc: Why do you see this bill as dangerous? -
MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 PIPA and SOPA Need a New Name 3261), introduced in the House in late October (which includes the most controversial parts of the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act (S. brycedotvc : There is a lot of talking, linking and letter writing to senators as the tech industry works frantically to stop a bill moving quickly through congress that will have a devastating effect on out industry. -
UNION SQUARE VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 Help Protect Internet Innovation We have previously written about why the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is bad for innovation. SOPA comes close to establishing the American equivalent of the Chinese firewall (just lacks IP filtering) and undermines the freedom to post links which is essential to free speech on the Internet, including blogs and Twitter. -
SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 Fight for your rights! American Censorship Day (that’s today!) The threat comes in the form of two bills, currently making their way through the legislative process – Protect IP Act (PIPA – S.968 ) and Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA – H.R.3261 ). PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. We already have a fundamental access problem on the internet. -
MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 American Censorship Day If you read yesterday’s Tech Tuesday post on networking or are familiar with the history of the architecture of the Internet you know that a lack of global control was a core principle behind the design of TCP/IP. Everywhere we look hierarchical control systems are being replaced by decentralized networks operating on the Internet. -
FELD THOUGHTS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011 American Censorship Day Is Tomorrow (11/16/11) There are two very disturbing bills making their way through Congress: Protect IP Act (PIPA - S.968 ) and Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA – H.R.3261 ). PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. In addition to being censorship bills, these are anti-entrepreneurship bills. -
VC CAFE | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011 E&Y Journey: Interview with High-Tech Legend Dick Kramlich, by Yoram Tietz So if you think they don’t care about IP, then you are wrong. There is a huge change going on in China respecting IP, on the other hand, in software, medical instrumentation, there is a certain latitude in the evolution of companies where IP is the ultimate bastion of defense, so you have to live with the greyness of the world. -
ONSTARTUPS | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011 The Backuisition and 9 Other Types of Acquisitions [humor] Sackuisition : This is a deal that's all about the customers or the IP or anything other than the people. It's time for some Friday fun. The following list was sparked in part by my hatred of the term "acquihire" (which no matter how many times I try to train myself, I can never say it correctly in my head when I read it). ” 4. -
FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011 Gadget Review: The Amazon Kindle Fire The 7-inch screen size is decidedly better for reading books and magazines, although the Kindle Fire uses the same IPS (in-plane switching) screen technology as the Apple iPad 2 instead of the much sharper E-Ink technology used on the existing Kindle models. It just might be the best product Amazon has ever released. At 14.6 -
FELD THOUGHTS | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2011 Protect The Internet The Senate bill is called the Protect IP Act. Politics dmca e-parasites internet protect ipFred Wilson has a strong post up titled Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs that explains the situation. Go read the post now – it’s an outstanding summary in plain English of what is going on. - Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs
The content industry's lobbyists have forged two new bills, one in the Senate called Protect IP and one in the House called E-Parasites. My partner Brad and I spent Thursday in DC along with a bunch of entrepreneurs and VCs. The DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The four safe harbors are explained here. -
EIN NEWS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011 Venture Capitalists Take Fight Against IP Bill To The Hill websites was introduced, more than a dozen venture capitalists came to Washington Thursday to complain that. harder to get startups going" in the United States, Josh Mendelsohn, a partner with a VC -
EIN NEWS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 Don't Let Hollywood Break the Internet With the PROTECT IP Act! innovation. Despite our current economic troubles, the United States continues to lead the world in Internet. Tea Party values. Consumer groups, legal scholars, venture capitalists, leading entrepreneurs, Internet scientists and YouTube users -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011 A New Challenge and a New Opportunity: Joining GoInstant As an aside, while this isn’t a huge deal for me, the fact that there’s actual IP behind GoInstant is interesting. Recently I announced that Year One Labs was mostly complete ; at least our active incubation phase. were all fantastic experiences. But now, I want something different. It works on any browser and on mobile devices. -
CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011 Localizing Logically for a Global Marketplace You might detect that a visitor is “German” because their Geo IP locates them as connecting from Germany, or because their browser accept language is German. But what if your detection is faulty… they’re using a shared computer, or on vacation, or the Geo IP is just plain wrong? Websites often use too much magic (e.g. DE or US). -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011 Is Your Startup Ready for IP Due Diligence? As an IP attorney who has conducted due diligence for VCs, Angels, and acquiring companies, I’m wondering: Is your startup ready for due diligence? Let me explain what IP due diligence is and why your preparation today is important. You want to be prepared for IP due diligence and not delay or derail your future deals. -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011 Does Your Investment Pitch Have an IP Slide? I recently spoke with VC Rudy Garza of G51 Capital Management about entrepreneurs and their attitude about IP. This neglect is interesting in light of the fact that Rudy says they always ask about the startup’s IP protection plan. We discussed why some entrepreneurs don’t seem to understand the importance of IP. -
YOUNGUPSTARTS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011 [Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011: A Sign of Increasing Asian Technology Innovation In particular, the level of R&D collaboration with and IP licensing from universities and public research institutes remained relatively low among high-tech firms. But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011. Singapore Innovation. Ongoing Challenges. -
EIN NEWS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011 The problem with PIPA: the Protect IP Act And it's why more than 50 major venture capitalists argue "PIPA will ultimately put American innovators. felt not just by users, but by U.S. networks and businesses, including banks and credit. of China has no place in the United States of America. Repeating the assertion that PIPA -
BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011 Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. What could you learn from looking at your competitors or other tech startups in a different way? Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? hear views like this all the time. -
CODE AS CRAFT | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011 Internationalizing Etsy: Fostering a Global Marketplace Some of the topics we plan on covering: Localization logic : Combining cues such as Geo IP, browser language preferences along with cookie/user preferences to display the appropriately-localized language, region and currency content. As a first step, we launched Etsy in German in September. Continuous deployment = continuous translation. -
WWW.GREENHORNCONNECT.COM | MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011 Five signs it’s time to get your business organized 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business. Skip to Navigation. >. User login. Sign in here or Create your free account! The Feed Blog. Learning. -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 Does Your Startup Own the IP Created by its Founders? One of the most damaging omissions is not taking the proper steps to ensure the company owns all of the rights to the IP created by all founders. You should all sign the IP assignment agreements at the very beginning when everyone is committed to the company’s success. Most standard form agreements don’t have this provision. -
BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 "When in doubt, look different". Geoffrey Moore at Business of Software. Video & transcript. This is what allowed this to platforms like the client/server platform to proliferate the TC IP platform in that. What is context, what is core? "I have to say if I have, to be in a business during this economy, I would want to be in a software business. service led software business. Because it's the most flexible. Okay, good. Right? | |