Up and Running
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Initially investing across a broad technological landscape securing multiple patents ensures a more difficult and expensive challenge for competitors to uncover design-arounds for each of the unique patents with any knock-off. Patent battles can be existential risks and full-time help with the requisite expertise is key.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Many people start companies arse backwards.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. Why should I be? I finally called bullshit.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Technology-centric businesses. To date, has been mainly used in technology-centric businesses and impact investing. Technology-centric businesses. Lenders sometimes take warrants. Minimum requirements.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 11, 2017
by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International. Their intellectual property that details their new product or service is exceedingly valuable and warrants the utmost in protection. His company LC Technology International makes data recovery products for most of his competitors.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. A Korean war could bring about a technology industry winter on top of the enormous suffering to those directly in its path.
Andrew Payne
OCTOBER 29, 2008
In his recent blog post, “ A hierarchy of pitches “, Eric Ries points out each situation warrants a different presentation emphasis, and he neatly categorizes the different types. A breakthrough technology project needs to show clear IP ownership, and ideas for making products out of the technology.
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