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

OCTOBER 9, 2020

They own the IP. Moreover, it’s an audience that is interested in different products than the average traditional sports viewer. Our portfolio company Madskil is pioneering an interesting approach in this space. They sell the game. Anything having to do with the games has to go through them. Source: McKinsey.

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Technical Review Revenue IP Affiliate 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If you can check these boxes and convince venture capitalists that you’ve achieved product fit in a market with plenty of room for growth, you have a real shot at securing funding. The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If you think it’s location-based services / find out where your friends are at while you’re out – let’s talk about whether we need to incorporate that into our product. I logged into a room to listen to music & see what the product was all about. To ignore FourSquare would be dumb. But I saw turntable.fm

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Startup Guerilla Silicon Valley Portfolio 313

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). . Other products like Sparkswap, which allowed users to buy Lightning BTC via atomic swaps, faced the same challenge. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Networking Global OTC Security 168

David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Presenting Companies: Axiomed ( www.axiomed.com ) has a 2nd generation Total Disc Replacement (TDR) product that holds promise to improve outcomes for the millions of people that suffer from degenerative disc disease. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP.

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Technical Review New York Accredited Investor IP 128

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies.

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Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology. 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

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

The repeated mention of the product (hopefully). Product/regions/channels. 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. Creative is the thing you see in the ad.

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

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

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. . There are plentiful advantages to list here, chiefly among them the potential to increase our productivity by 10x or more. Trust in the media is already at an all time low.

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Generative AI Media ChatGPT Social Media 88

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 Portfolio Valuation Non-disclosure Agreement 363

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Accountability.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 247

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Accountability.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 234

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. Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Flexible VC offers you this. Cash collateral.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

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). So… if you are a designer and/or have led a design team, check out this new product!

Design 60

Design Cofounder IP Vertical 60

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

HBS Professor Tom Eisenmann is creating a course next spring on "Launching Technology Ventures" where he is going to delve into lean start-ups, finding product-market fit, what are the key start-up activities before product-market fit and what are the most important activities afterwards, and other salient topics. of the product.

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Venture Capital Lean Technical Review Software Review 37

NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

This includes new methods, products, expressions of ideas, trade secrets, brands and logos. As soon as you have a business or product idea and you’ve spent some time planning what this may look like in reality, start looking into intellectual property protection. What is intellectual property?

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Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Early Stage 91

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? MoshPit combination templates are augmented with objects, products, trends, improv games, and other ways to work the combination clay.

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Intellectual Property Framework Agile IP 51

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The event will culminate in Demo Day, which is tomorrow, and will see Seedcamp showcase its portfolio startups to a wide variety of professional investors and press. Rawstream is a cloud-based web-filtering service that banks on secure DNS servers to help SMBs secure their Internet access, meet compliance and boost employee productivity.

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Startup IP Cloud Algorithm 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Accountability.

Intellectual Property 122

Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 122

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. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

K9 expects to be an active investor in portfolio companies and will typically make only 4-6 new investments per year. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth. Either protectable IP or at least hard IP.

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Seed Stage San Francisco IP Portfolio 61

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Product, Marketing, Sales. 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. Or, work at a big Tech company (Google, Facebook, Twiter, etc), then migrate.

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Venture Capital IP Portfolio PR 59

Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the value that a strong patent portfolio can give your company is unmatched. Broader patent protection for key products. As a general rule, the fewer patents covering a product, the easier it is to design a competing product around that protection. Yes, patents are expensive. Market-driven strategy.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Portfolio Startup Intellectual Property 88

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. That product image you tested may show up number one in Google’s image results to bring you 100 visitors per month. When Product Reviews Hurt Conversions. Robots don’t buy your product, write the copy so it converts humans.

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SEO Technical Review Algorithm Jacksonville 48

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

As he grows, he can simply focus on increasing the restaurant portfolio and getting more corporate clients. I advised Nimesh to focus on getting a couple of large corporations in Mumbai and a dozen restaurants in the beta program, and get the business going. Next week, we are focusing on entrepreneurs in Latin and Central America.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. In fact, the search products of the day didn’t work very well, so people didn’t use them very much. Google changed that in the early 2000s with their breakthrough product and company.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

Several companies have announced or launched Metaverse products already including Meta’s Horizon Worlds , Microsoft’s Mesh , Nvidia’s Omniverse , etc. It’s a combination of virtual reality, augmented reality and virtual worlds (which today mostly consist of games like Roblox, Fortnite, Upland, Decentraland, etc).

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Technical Review Non-Compete IP 217

NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 13, 2020

A registered design is similar to a patent in that it needs to be registered and is for a monopoly, but a registered design protects the way in which a product looks. Registered intellectual property rights can also prevent counterfeit products from causing you greater problems down the road, once you have a product in the marketplace.

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Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Security 52

Ben's Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, held an IP claim against Skype. From a technology standpoint, at the time, it was impossible to field a high-quality web client or mobile product, but that time wouldn’t last. Based on the founders’ motivations, we felt that we’d quickly settle the IP litigation.

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IP Intellectual Property Canada Angel Investor 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. If I see your alpha product then I can judge how it develops over time. I’m personally 70% management, 30% product.

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Early Stage Startup Venture Capital Seed Stage 360

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

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 Non-disclosure Agreement IP United States 174

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

You can buy shares in several different stocks, sure, but that doesn’t truly diversify your portfolio. You’ll still be at the mercy of stock market trends, and you may lose your entire portfolio in an especially bad market. This is because there’s no limit on how much the value of an IP can increase.

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Intellectual Property IP Stock Equity 99