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  • ARCTICSTARTUP  |  FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010
    Anyfi Networks Introduces New Revenue Model For ISPs With Easy Wi-Fi Over IP Roaming
  • BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010
    How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup
    Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.  For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.  the link is here.
  • 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.
  • STARTUPCFO  |  FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012
    Getting Due Diligence Ready
    The most important ones by far: Intellectual property and IP assignment : make sure every current and former employee and subcontractor / consultant has signed a document assigning all IP rights to the company. We’re getting into that time of the year where VCs stereotypically head for their yachts. Getting Due Diligence Ready.
  • HIGH CONTRAST  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013
    Startups and intellectual property: how much is a muse worth?
    Every now and then, a comment merits its own post: I have a question regarding IP rights. The question is whose idea is it and who owns an IP for it? There is a legal standard as to what constitutes full IP ownership. The equal sharing I honestly find a little random but it’s very rare that the IP would be worth anything.
  • 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.
  • FELD THOUGHTS  |  SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2010
    Print From Anywhere With Pogoplug
    It turns out that nothing really works except hard wiring its IP address into our printer setup. Um – yeah – that’s obvious – especially for someone who doesn’t know what an IP address is. When I arrived at my house in Homer, I hadn’t been here for two years. Except I couldn’t print.
  • BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE  |  MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2011
    What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
    You own the IP you create. If you build a true “technology services for services sake&# business at some point you’ll likely build technology products as part of your projects where you either own the IP or you own in jointly with your customer or business partner. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator.
  • IP LAW FOR STARTUPS  |  TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011
    My Website’s Software Foundation: Do I Own the Code or Can I Sell My Site?
    If your business is based on your website, and someday you want to sell your business or your site, the IP rights and licenses to the website’s software foundation are important. You need to consider the following questions: 1) Do I exclusively own the underlying IP rights to the site’s foundational software?
  • STEVE BLANK  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
    The Pay-It-Forward Culture
    Today, in spite of the fact that the valley is crawling with IP lawyers, the tradition of helping and sharing continues. Foreign visitors to Silicon Valley continually mention how willing we are to help, network and connect strangers.  We take it so for granted we never even to bother to talk about it.  It’s the “Pay-It-Forward” culture.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • DEAL ARCHITECT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012
    The fork in the road
    “The advertising industry is evolving and growing at an incredible pace, moving increasingly toward online and IP-served platforms, which dramatically increases the importance of software for this industry,” Guess what: Steve Ballmer of Microsoft said that in 2007 when they. Industry Commentary
  • A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
    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.
  • A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011
    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.
  • DIEGO BASCH  |  MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012
    Some Fresh Twitter Stats (as of July 2012, Dataset Included)
    Twitter limits API requests from a given IP address to 150 per hour (in practice sometimes less). had to use a few addresses to fetch all the data over the weekend (tip that came in handy: some mobile carriers refresh your IP every time you go in and out of airplane mode). Here’s what I did, along with some conclusions.
  • SOCAL CTO  |  TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
    NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept
    Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company?
  • STEVE BLANK  |  MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012
    Lying on your resume
    But instead the minute I said, “my first startup used  CATV coax to implement a local-area network for process control systems (which 35 years ago pre-Ethernet and TCP/IP was pretty cutting edge.) It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup. Richard Nixon and Watergate. Badly Want the Job. Where did you go to school?”.
  • 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. ”
  • STEVE BLANK  |  SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
    Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project
    Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. Ok, I get a lot of these. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued. asked.
  • A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY  |  WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013
    The IPA
    The basic idea of the IPA is that it is a contract between Twitter and the engineer(s) and designer(s) who developed the IP. Our portfolio companies are independent of USV and can make up their own minds about their IP strategies. 'No, I am not blogging about India Pale Ale, although I must say that I am a big fan of it.
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013
    Great Entrepreneurs are Masters of Business Chaos
    Don’t count on your IP to save you. Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of growth that is required to get to positive cash flow. Sadly, this false perception often leads to the death of their business, or at least the end of their tenure as CEO. Your income drops.
  • NON-LINEAR GROWTH  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
    Working with Friends
    Well… today, Intel Capital announced a significant investment in Meritage portfolio company IP Commerce. I’m excited that Intel has decided to join us at IP Commerce. Welcome to the team guys and congratulations to IP Commerce for successfully completing this financing. Crisp is better for it. On and up!
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • POINT JUDITH CAPITAL  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012
    GetWellNetwork Ranks #1 for Third Consecutive Year
    GetWellNetwork today announced that it has been named the category leader for Interactive Patient Systems (IPS) for the third consecutive year by  KLAS. To read the entire article visit GetWellNetwork’s website. News GetWellNetwork health Interactive Patient Care
  • JOHN O'FARRELL  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011
    Building the Global Startup
    Protect your IP  . Make sure your IP protection plan covers you internationally.  This is the first in a series on building a global company from the ground up. In browsing Quora recently, I was struck, but not surprised, by how many people sought advice on how to expand a startup internationally.  Photo: Paranoidnotandroid on Flickr.
  • GABRIEL WEINBERG  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010
    How-to not log personally identifiable information
    This procedure will probably amount to you dropping IP addresses and user agent strings from your Web server logs. for everyone's IP address. l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "-"" combined Then you're going to want to double check your application logs to make sure you're not writing IP addresses to them either.
  • DAZZLINDONNA  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010
    Ever Wondered How Google Works?
    Search Geek Challenges - Google, Mayday, and Sniffing Google IP Addresses. Tweet. PPCBlog has done an outstanding job of explaining the process (as much as can really be explained by anyone outside of the Google inner circle), using an easy-to-understand infographic. Kudos. Check it out (click to enlarge). Study. Learn. Implement.
  • GABRIEL WEINBERG  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010
    My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups
    Made a bunch of sites that did deep crawls of structured information and put them on the Web, e.g. sites behind ip addresses, streets in the US, sports statisics, etc. This HN thread by the founder of Github on side projects got me thinking. thought it would illustrative to enumerate my projects. Velvet Donk (1996-2000). Should have. Yahoo!
  • A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY  |  SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011
    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.
  • DEAL ARCHITECT  |  MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
    Buzzkill
    It goes into scary hacking scenarios, IP protection challenges, teardowns and jailbreaks companies need to. When I present on the 12 attributes of the “Technology Elite” from my recent book, I seem to rush through the one on being Paranoid. Industry Commentary
  • GABRIEL WEINBERG  |  SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2011
    PostgreSQL tips and tricks
    Not to fear; there are some simple things you can do to lessen the impact, e.g.: nice -n 20 ionice -n 3 pg_dump nice -n 20 ionice -n 3 psql This wraps the command to have the lowest cpu priority (via nice ) and ip priority (via ionice ). I've been using PostgreSQL (an open-source database) for many years. IO is slow, so avoid it. you do.
  • STEVE BLANK  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009
    Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy
    Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. Outside the U.S. Intellectual Property. Patent.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • CHRIS DIXON  |  MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
    Notes on the acquisition process
    The most prominent one lately is “IP indemnification.” ” This is a complicated issue, but in short, as a response to patent trolls going after IP escrows, acquirers have been trying to get clawbacks from investors in case of IP claims. Ten years ago, startups financing was an insider’s game. startups
  • READWRITESTART  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012
    What Start-Ups Need to Know About Protecting Intellectual Propery Around the World
    Intellectual Property (IP) is vitally important to start-ups. The Start-Up Genome Project , which aims to map, model and analyze what makes start-ups tick, identified IP as a top source of competitive advantage for start-ups. Finally, start-ups should explore their options for either bringing IP tasks in house or outsourcing them.
  • HIGH CONTRAST  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
    Startup Founder Agreements
    It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. For example, without a clear vehicle (a company) to contribute intellectual property into, a founder who walks away may mean that the future company won’t own its own IP. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. Employee.
  • 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.
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
    Social Media Accounts are Intellectual Property
    When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. This name (www.
  • BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE  |  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2010
    The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup
    What about Product / IP? I obviously don’t speak for all investors. But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. I was interested in learning more. do understand.
  • 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.
  • MARKET BY NUMBERS  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
    You Can’t “Feature” Your Way to Success
    In this age of fast development and no IP protection, whoever “owns&# the customer, wins. The analytical mind of an entrepreneur, both engineer and business-side, naturally tends toward solving problems and ostensibly, features solve problems. But it’s the wrong approach for most startups. In fact, the opposite is true. The
  • STARTUP HOUSTON  |  TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
    Startup Community Roundtable | What can we learn from other cities?
    These “resources” can include workspaces (coworking, maker/hackerspaces), incubators/accelerators, unique tax reinvestment zones, access to capital, IP commercialization programs, mentors, events, conferences, corporate sponsorships and partnerships, hackathons, and more. Presented by Startup Texas / Startup America.
  • STARTUP HOUSTON  |  TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
    Startup Community Roundtable | What can we learn from other cities?
    These “resources” can include workspaces (coworking, maker/hackerspaces), incubators/accelerators, unique tax reinvestment zones, access to capital, IP commercialization programs, mentors, events, conferences, corporate sponsorships and partnerships, hackathons, and more. Presented by Startup Texas / Startup America.
  • FELD THOUGHTS  |  WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010
    Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US
    And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. My friend Sawyer was as disappointed in the outcome of Bilski as he was in the ending to LOST. So, yeah, we’re a little screwed.
  • K9 VENTURES  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011
    The investment that didn’t happen
    While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. However, the IP climate remains unchanged, and it’s likely that other villains will continue to exploit similar situations.
  • BEN'S BLOG  |  TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011
    Microsoft Buys Skype
    Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, held an IP claim against Skype. Based on the founders’ motivations, we felt that we’d quickly settle the IP litigation. Both sides wanted to get on with the business of making Skype more competitive and could not afford to waste time bickering about IP ownership.
  • GUST  |  SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012
    You are the Best One to Build Your Startup Brand
    hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. The result is they get no feedback, no credibility, no visibility, and no investors until months later than they expect.
  • STARTUPENGINEERING  |  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012
    The Antifragile Startup
    The things that make a startup seem robust, like super experienced and talented entrepreneurs or great IP, are in fact liabilities when they’re part of a startup without a discovered market.  Nassim Nicholas Taleb is idiosyncratic, smug, and self indulgent; but you can’t deny he comes up with some gems.  That’s a death sentence. 
  • UNION SQUARE VENTURES  |  TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012
    Investment Thesis @USV
    Venture firms operate a bunch of different ways. Some have a geographical focus, others have a sector focus, still others have a stage focus. In short, as described by Brad last year in 140 characters , USV invests in: Large networks of engaged users, differentiated through user experience, and defensible through network effects.
  • BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013
    How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company
    Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. training. rollout support. Whatever.
  • SOCAL CTO  |  WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011
    StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups
    For example: Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack Customer Development for Web Startups How To Get Your First 1,000 Users Similarly, when you look at IP / Intellectual Property for Startups, it's dominated by Jill Hubbard Bowman 's wonderful content.
  • 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.
  • YOUNGUPSTARTS  |  SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
    14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project
    Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. 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. better user growth.
  • FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG  |  MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012
    Patent Research Just Got Easier
    An IP lawyer dishes on Google's search tools for patent-seekers--and what every start-up should know before heading down that path. To learn more about how start-ups might use this tool, I checked in with Van Lindberg, an IP and open-source attorney with the international corporate law firm Haynes and Boone. In a blog post on Aug.
  • THE VC IN ME  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011
    Guest Post from HBS Professor: The Nuances of Marketplaces
    Example: starting in 2005 a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were bullish about market exchanges for IP (e.g. But I always thought it would be impossible to get MSPs for IP to scale given the lack of valuation transparency and lack of transaction standards (not to mention huge litigation risks). the vc in me. Welcome! Archives.
  • CHARLIECRYSTLE.COM  |  SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011
    The Next Web: Every Device a Web Service?
    Devil's advocates step forward: --cell phones don't have fixed IPs. Create a proxy system, where the IPs are fixed and hosted at the proxy, and the smartphone logs into the proxy when the phone's available. Someone recently ported Node.js The question is, why? For what? What info matters? So what? Ok, for what? Cool stuff
  • FOR THE WIN  |  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012
    Square Puck
    At the end of the day, Square is a consumer-facing company; that is their DNA, their culture and their IP.  Replica of first hockey puck ever used (it actually was square-ish). Square Puck:  sounds dangerous, right?  I think it is. Typically in this blog, and more generally in life, I avoid making explicit recommendations and predictions. 
  • 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.
  • VC CAFE  |  THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
    IBC 2011 Attracts 28 Israeli Media and Mobile Startups to Amsterdam
    Shiron SatCom two-way broadband satellite communications system, InterSKY, is an efficient multi service platform, supporting wide ranging IP applications in even the remotest locations, for both military and commercial projects. This year, 28 Israeli startups in mobile, media and broadcasting technology are flocking in to IBC 2011.
  • ORRICK TOTAL ACCESS  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
    Top 10 Mistakes Companies Make During Acquisitions
    Protect Your IP - One of the biggest mistakes companies make in the early stages of their development, is not dotting all their i’s and crossing their t’s when it comes to protecting their intellectual property.  'By Don Keller (Partner, Emerging Companies Practice in Silicon Valley, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP).
  • FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
    Your Road Map to Going Global in Uncertain Times
    When it comes to IP theft and espionage, things get trickier. Above all, experts say, you should only work with partners you trust, and even then, you should only go so far, making sure your precious IP never strays abroad. Managing an international supply chain is getting riskier. Factory riots and espionage in China.
  • DIEGO BASCH  |  SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012
    If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This
    [Edit: I changed the CNAME record for the root domain to be an A record pointing to the Posterous IP address (currently 184.106.20.99). However, I don't like that solution because if Posterous changes its IP address then everything breaks. This seems to be fixing the problem. Yesterday I asked Twitter to help me diagnose the problem.
  • K9 VENTURES  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
    The Making of Lytro
    We talked about several markets — security, defense, professional (DSLRs), consumer (Point-and-Shoots), mobile (cell phones), IP licensing, lens adapters, etc. Almost every VC firm came back with how they either don’t do hardware, or they don’t do IP licensing plays. His office was next door to mine.
  • 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.
  • GUST  |  TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012
    Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?
    Copyright is not the only type of IP right implicated — and others such as rights of privacy and publicity become increasingly relevant in the age of social media — but it provides many of the most accessible examples. Is Instapaper like collecting press clippings?  If so, do you have to buy a copy of each paper first?)  Rose likes Gust.
  • FORCE OF GOOD: A BLOG BY LANCE WEATHERBY  |  TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2010
    Application Neutrality
    What DARPA created was a framework of computer network protocols called the TCP/IP model. The TCP/IP model is also known as the Internet Protocol Suite. Today is a pretty important day for the Internet. FCC Chairman Julius Geneachoski has asked for his organization to adopt rules to protect the open Internet. Net neutrality rules.
  • OCCAM'S RAZOR  |  MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012
    EU Cookie / Privacy Laws: Implications On Data Collection And Analysis
    Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. But information like IP address, browser user agent id, time stamps, page urls and much more are recorded in web logs. Nuance on the cookie issue:] Cookies are fine, IP addresses can't be collected or only partly collected. Enjoy!
  • GABRIEL WEINBERG  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012
    How do you completely de-personalize Google results?
    Does personalized search for everyone still just use cookies or does it also use IP or other info? I asked this question to Twitter the other day but didn't get any answers I hadn't heard before. I'm hoping this post uncovers something new. bit of background. Google announced personalized search for everyone way back in 2009. Technology
  • IP LAW FOR STARTUPS  |  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010
    New Editor: Heather N. Schafer
    Schafer, an intellectual property attorney in Chicago has joined me as a main editor and publisher of IP Law For Startups. I’m excited to announce that Heather N. Heather N. Schafer. Heather is a  highly creative patent attorney who is adept at helping entrepreneurs obtain patent protection for their inventions.
  • VENTURE CHRONICLES  |  FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011
    Read My Lips: We Are Not Walking Away from WebOS
    First the tech pundits, who are centering on the IP is the main asset argument. Today comes news leaked from an internal HP all hands meeting that the company is not abandoning WebOS, 15 months after acquiring it for $1.2 billion. This is how we get all our news about HP these days, leaked memos and meeting soundbites.
  • A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010
    Would AT&T or Comcast Have Created Google?
    But they did not create Google, Skype, Facebook, or even TCP/IP. The answer to that question is no. They had their chances. In the early days of the Internet, when dial-up was king, the telco companies were in the driver's seat. They had the customer relationships. They had the on-ramp to the Internet. Why am I talking about this?
  • VERSION ONE VENTURES  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012
    The one barrier to entry startups should focus on
    In the post “ Traction is the new IP ,” I argued that superior traction can help a web company become a category leader, which accelerates word of mouth. Barriers to entry! Photo credit: phill.d) Creating effective barriers to entry can be the single most important driver defining the profit potential of a company. Here’s why.
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011
    PR for a Startup Should Not Start With an Agency
    hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. The result is they get no feedback, no credibility, no visibility, and no investors until months later than they expect.
  • GABRIEL WEINBERG  |  FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010
    Duck Duck Go Searches Are Now Externally Anonymous
    IP addresses are not stored. Since you are no longer making the request on your side, your IP address isn't being sent to them at all. Duck Duck Go searches have been internally anonymous for a while. Neither are full user agents.[1] For more info, check out the privacy policy. The meta page is sent in memory via the nginx echo module.
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011
    Ten Principles Which Spell Continuous 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 your startup, and increasing in importance as your business matures. Brands. This is an imperative. No risk, no innovation.
  • 47 HATS  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010
    Using GoToMeeting with a MicroConsulting client
    While you can do voice over IP or a conference call within GoToMeeting.com , the former will eat bandwidth and the latter introduces its own set of complexities. One nice way of helping your startup customers is to use GoToMeeting.com. But if you do, there’s three things you want to keep in mind: Your screen sizes will differ.
  • FELD THOUGHTS  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012
    How To Predict The Future
    We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Today’s post is a guest post from William Hertling, author of the award-winning  Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears  and  A.I. By day he works on web and social media for HP. How To Do It.
  • 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.
  • TAFFY WILLIAMS  |  MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011
    Startup Blog: Intellectual Property (IP) and Know-how: Defined
    Monday, March 21, 2011 Intellectual Property (IP) and Know-how: Defined This blog will eventually discuss several key issues relating to your technology, including: selection, acquisition of rights, due diligence, commercial market, time to market, end users, size of market, and much more. But the real bread winners are the IP and Know-how.
  • VENTURE HACKS  |  THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010
    If you’ve run out of ideas, buy gold
    IP traffic is growing so fast that it has stunned the pioneering people who helped create it. Angel investor Thomas McInerney : “Take a look at all the innovation happening today — Tesla has produced a beautiful 100% electric car. The cost of mapping the human genome has gone from $3 billion ten years ago to thousands today.
  • VENTURE HACKS  |  THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010
    If you’ve run out of ideas, buy gold
    IP traffic is growing so fast that it has stunned the pioneering people who helped create it. Angel investor Thomas McInerney : “Take a look at all the innovation happening today — Tesla has produced a beautiful 100% electric car. The cost of mapping the human genome has gone from $3 billion ten years ago to thousands today.
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2011
    Entrepreneurs Who Fear Chaos Risk An Early Demise
    Don’t count on your IP to save you. Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of growth that is required to get to positive cash flow. Sadly, this false perception often leads to the death of their business, or at least the end of their tenure as CEO. Your income drops.
  • READWRITESTART  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
    LawPivot: Crowdsourced, Confidential Legal Advice for Startups
    Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. Questions about the legal requirements surrounding the establishment, incorporation or funding of a startup may be among the most common and most challenging that entrepreneurs face. Sponsor. How It Works. Discuss.
  • STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS  |  MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012
    You are the Best One to Build Your Startup Brand
    hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. The result is they get no feedback, no credibility, no visibility, and no investors until months later than they expect.
  • 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.
  • CHRIS DIXON  |  SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2010
    Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
    VCs develop no real IP and rarely have serious apprenticeship programs. If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs (Limited Partners) – mostly university endowments, pension funds, family funds, and funds-of-funds. Here’s why.
  • SEED STAGE CAPITAL  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010
    Startup Valuation: How Much Is Your Company Worth?
    This analogy carries through to due diligence: fixing a $20 rattling door handle preemptively removes that obstacle to a sale, just as cleaning up your startup’s capitalization table and IP assignment rights in advance will ensure the funding process goes that much smoother. Unfortunately, I cannot make it much less fuzzy. They dazzle.
  • FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG  |  THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012
    Global Expansion Do's & Don'ts
    Build on your existing intellectual property (IP). For this route, you might target jurisdictions with strong histories of protecting IP. Global expansion is not for the faint of heart. But there's a way to improve your chances of building successful international operations. The small business graveyard is littered with U.S. talent.
  • 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.
  • CONSTANTLY LEARNING  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013
    The PCI ASV Process Sucks
    The test involves scanning a Class-C range of IP addresses and present a detailed report of all the findings. "Security and PCI-DSS aren't exact sciences." - Approved Scanning Vendor Grader. At McAfee, I worked on a product that helped companies comply with PCI-DSS requirements. You are given three tries to pass the test.
  • LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES  |  SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013
    Are Harvard MBAs Solving Real Problems?
    Consider rethinking university rights on IP. That leaves a small percentage of the IP to the inventor and often makes it uneconomical to build a business out of the technology: raise funds, incentivize founding team, etc. As I read these posts, I realize that ideas haven’t changed since last year. The problems remain unsolved.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • GABRIEL WEINBERG  |  SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
    Replicating PostgreSQL with Bucardo
    In postgresql.conf you need to change listen_address and add in that IP or use * to listen on all. Again the easiest way is to trust that IP, though security-minded people will probably want to shoot me for suggesting it. If the title makes no sense to you, PostgreSQL is an open-source database. Why Bucardo? Then we add a sync.
  • 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.
  • MARKET BY NUMBERS  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009
    The State of Customer Development
    IP address is collected by the survey to attempt to block multiple responses by IP.)   Supplying email address is required if 1) you are interested in the raffle, or 2) you are interested in a follow up conversation regarding your experience with Customer Development.  I’m sure that’s just a matter of perception.  before.
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