YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

The NFTs are owned by celebrities, tech execs and investors, and the NFT owners own 100% of the IP on their Apes and are able to generate derivative income from creating products bearing the apes picture: music, fashion, food/drink etc.

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

They own the IP. Our portfolio company Madskil is pioneering an interesting approach in this space. Players may have a dream job, but the game publishers have all the power, as recently picked up by Wired magazine : “Publishers made a game. They sell the game. Anything having to do with the games has to go through them.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. This allows a VC to put more capital to work in their past portfolio companies with relatively little extra effort. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I called a bunch of portfolio companies and asked them to check it out. And even more pertinent to you specifically at your startup … The number of companies I talk to (or even portfolio companies) who are dismissive of their competitors is enormous. I think that’s pretty cool in the way Pandora helps me explore new music.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If the companies in their portfolio don’t have much in common with yours, it’s usually better to look elsewhere. If that’s the case, and they don’t consider investing in two competitors to be a conflict of interest, ask them how they protect founder IP and other proprietary assets. Draw upon connections to help get an audience.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 118

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

This produced two successful intra-portfolio acquisitions where one team joined a larger startup we previously seeded (Chime and Bowery Farming were the buyers) and a whole bunch of other transactions. If over the course of the next year you see any Homebrew portfolio company try this out, I’ll let you know! Very different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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IP Portfolio Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 234

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. Ask other portfolio companies how your VC acted when / if they got in a cash pinch. Would they be willing to put a bridge loan in place if need be? Do they think you ought to be cutting back on expenses to give you a longer runway to raise cash?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. 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.

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Intellectual Property Valuation Portfolio Non-disclosure Agreement 363

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies. I finally called bullshit. Was I too harsh?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . One major player pushing forward this vision is Jack Mallers’ Strike , a simple app that allows anyone to use the Lightning Network with a USD bank account.

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Networking Global Security OTC 168

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Your deck should be so good that a VC asks you for permission to show it to his or her portfolio companies.

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IP Differentiation Salary Sales 239

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. In the meantime, we have what we have today.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

How does the portfolio of all our activities – owned, earned, paid media, promotions etc. Our innovative approach… Due to non-public IP, it is a cluster I can’t tell you much about. It answers the hardest questions a CMO asks: What is the true incrementality of all my marketing spend? What is the bottom line (ex.,

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For example, our portfolio company Hour One allows you to create videos straight from text featuring virtual presenters, driving the cost of video creation down. . In the near-term we will have to figure out copyright, proper accreditation and IP issues. The long term impact could erode trust and turn us into cynical human beings.

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Generative AI Media ChatGPT IP 88

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Another great strategy is to ask to meet with some of their portfolio companies if you think your tech would be relevant to them as potential customers. That way your VC meeting becomes a sales lead AND the VC can get input from a trusted source (a portfolio company) without having to immediately commit more time. Compelling.

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Portfolio IP Later Stage Email 261

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 247

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. You can’t be stopped. You have a window. The time is now. All the A players will work with you now if you are strong. All the rewards go to those who can survive. Techstars is here to help. We’re going to keep growing and keep investing.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”.

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Cofounder Technical Review Dividend Equity 78

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 22, 2012

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.

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Intellectual Property IP Europe Asia 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Accountability. Team members need to feel responsibility for on-time delivery.

Intellectual Property 234

Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 234

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

However, if a company is not going so well is there any way you can help engineer an acquihire or potentially sell off some of the company’s IP on the way out. But that doesn’t always have to be the case. Creating a reputation as an investor who truly backs their founders can often make you an investor of choice.

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Pre-Money Valuation Seed Stage IP Deal Flow 167

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . I don’t have the statistics for the overall startup ecosystem, but I suspect that they’re not radically different than the NextView portfolio.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

In today’s tech patent wars, you typically need entire portfolios of offensive and defensive patents to make a difference. But Colleen Chien, IP expert and law professor at Santa Clara University, said Facebook "needs all the patents it can get, especially now after (its battle) with Yahoo.".

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Portfolio IP IPO Database 139

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. Unlike code where version control of text is relatively straightforward, product and design IP is locked up in inaccessible file formats (binary). You can read co-founder Josh Brewer’s announcement here. Abstract fits all those criteria.

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Design Cofounder IP Vertical 60

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

One of the reasons I have so much personal conviction of the breadth of these theories is that there are two companies in our portfolio - one a clean tech and the other a life sciences - that have applied parts of the lean start-up methodology very effectively. Their stories help illuminate the opportunity for others.

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Venture Capital Lean Technical Review Software Review 37

ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

In today’s tech patent wars, you typically need entire portfolios of offensive and defensive patents to make a difference. But at least one IP expert said Facebook needs all the patents it can get. According to IP experts, it's not uncommon to persist in getting a patent. And the effort finally paid off.

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IP Portfolio Database IPO 73

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 22, 2012

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.

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Intellectual Property IP Europe Asia 84

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 13, 2004

Well, you can imagine that down the line the company that the co-founder worked for could potentially claim rights to the IP. Today, the IP is about to get assigned in the proper manner. Rather than leave this open to chance, the VC and the early stage company did the right thing and decided to clean up the ambiguity.

Software Review 60

Software Review Intellectual Property IP Due Diligence 60

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2013

This category includes Portfolio data as we also believe that sharing your work with other community members exhibits loyalty to them. You can also help your acore in this category by reporting problem briefs and helping us keep an eye out for violations of IP policies or other bad behavior.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Then, make a list next to it of your existing products and IP portfolio. Ask yourself, what could be combined, from your existing portfolio, with those new digital capabilities? Do this experiment: Make a list of the new digital technologies (AI, Social Media, Internet of Things, Robotics).

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Intellectual Property Framework Agile IP 51

Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

3) Work in the industry - Accelerators, PR, HR, Design, IP – whatever. 4) Fix a portfolio company- This works if you have operational skills. Every VC has at least one portfolio co that’s not doing well. Bonus points if you’re a ninja in your field of expertise. Then transition. Probably more. 6) Be lucky.

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Venture Capital IP Portfolio PR 59