Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. Do we have the wrong PR firm? Don’t just mentally write off their features or marketing as “dumb” – ask internally what you could learn from it. Let’s think about whether that is hurting us or not.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. They are actively hiring Perl programmers. on a hosted basis.

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Stealth IP NDA Startup 40

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2023

With each job I had, the directors of these agencies had no idea how Digital PR truly worked. 13- To fulfill clients expectations Photo Credit: Robyn Morley I have been working for SEO/Website/Marketing agencies for 2 years.

Entrepreneur 136

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2016

In addition to exposing individuals to possible identity theft, security breaches also expose companies to negative PR. Cloud-based Tripwire SecureScan provides free vulnerability scanning for up to 100 Internet protocol (IP) addresses on an internal network. Internet hackers pose a credible threat to businesses and to their customers.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I 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. At any point, hiring a professional to generate your PR may be well worth the cost, but it’s not required. As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

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Elevator Pitch Public Relations Startup IP 240

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

He did it so well and with such a smile on his face, that we started adding on more responsibilities, ultimately putting him in charge of our IP violations process. Amanda Werner is a freaking Valedictorian of her college class and helps out around here with marketing and PR. Thanks, Dylan!

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Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With each job I had, the directors of these agencies had no idea how Digital PR truly worked. 13- Made Photo Credit: Robyn Morley I have been working for SEO/Website/Marketing agencies for 2 years. I was made to spam journalists, pick up the slack for other departments, and work crazy amounts of hours for a low base salary.

Entrepreneur 71

Entrepreneur ChatGPT PR Leadership 71

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I 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. At any point, hiring a professional to generate your PR may be well worth the cost, but it’s not required. As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

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Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I 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. At any point, hiring a professional to generate your PR may be well worth the cost, but it’s not required. As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

Elevator Pitch 158

Elevator Pitch Startup IP Public Relations 158

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

With increasing numbers of mobile apps, IP theft is becoming more common – [link]. Interesting debate – especially in the comments – about 3D movies – [link]. American portion size, then vs now – [link]. Pitcher Spurns $12 Million, to Keep Self-Respect – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Startup PR. Engage an IP lawyer for more thorough analysis). April 11, 2012 – Event Recap. Future Energy – Virtual Events. Company Directory. How To… Calculate Market Size. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. Name A Startup. Bootstrapping. Past Events. Name A Startup. I’m often in the process of naming a startup.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Working with my business partner and with my PR consultant, I first came up with the tag line, Motivate To Activate Your True Potential(tm). an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. Here’s a bit of history.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You wouldnt believe how many people loose the valuable IP by putting way to much info in their project descriptions. Should be a simple $50 to $100 script. go to both www.elance.com www.rentacoder.com create user accounts and list your project. list a brief outline of the script you need created. not giving out too much information.

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Web Development Coder Web Developer 40

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, to a large extent Mike created the war by launching a withering PR attack that Microsoft couldn’t ignore.

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Jason Ball

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

3) Work in the industry - Accelerators, PR, HR, Design, IP – whatever. You’ll have insight into big company M&A (they will be your customer as a VC) and you’ll have some operational skills. Bonus points if you’re a ninja in your field of expertise. Then transition.

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Venture Capital IP Portfolio PR 59

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Consultant.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property NDA 60

eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server coordination. ganglia for graphing, with drraw for custom graphs like the stack graph mentioned above.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements. Double-down on great people, process & IP. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Nice going NYC government PR machine. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. Why not just pay Graham Lawler directly do to this and spend the city's PR capital on supporting Ultra Light, versus going head to head with him?

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Government New York City New York San Diego 97

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

I'm working with a PR/Communications gurus who is trying to focus me on a name, that when you hear it, it tells people what it is you are doing. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Brad Friedman This post is extremely helpful and timely, as I am in the midst of struggling to come up with a name for a startup.

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

However, this will impact the value of your IP. Every startup needs PR, but this is even more true of flips. Services such as Cabana or GameSalad let you easily create an app using drag and drop. There is nothing inferior about using such a tool to create something meaningful rapidly. Create Buzz.

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Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? When new changes roll out that aren't anticipated or expected - like the whole PR deal that became a PR mess - people PANIC. PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It has the dual technology patrons and yet the consistent story I get is that they’re not actively out embracing the startup community, helping local successes emerge, getting comfortable with the symbiotic benefits of some employees going to startups that innovate at a different pace and then buying up local teams, talent & IP.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. Now we needed to raise more to keep going. Dont do what we did.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. But I sometime see people get bogged down in PR releases, cancelation clauses, minimum guarantees, whatever. Try your best to stand your ground on as many points as you care about.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

I love trees so, you know, a lot of times I kinda laugh and say, weeds are just flowers with bad PR firms. John Jantsch (02:50): You know, it's funny. I, I really I'm. I love all plants. I love all animals. I mean, it's like what? I know why we call some things weeds, but their nature of taking over. Stu Heinecke (09:02): Blow that's true.

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Technical Review Naming Networking Washington 76

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

aweissman.com

APRIL 16, 2008

Instead of providing a common office space, HR, marketing, PR functions, we provide a common development team and common values for product development excellence. — a little less George Clintoneque. Hi Andrew, not sure if youve heard of OutCubator from a friend, or from the web. Basically, we do exactly what you describe.

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Incubator IP PR Analytics 20

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So, you know, a lot of times I kinda laugh and say, what weeds are just flowers with bad PR firms? They love to, they look, they're kind of seat buds and, but then Thorn strategy is interesting because that's using all legal protections, for example, to protect your ip and really your turf, you're really protecting your turf.

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Channel Sales Naming California 71

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence).

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