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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ? trade secret).

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

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This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. If these terms sound onerous and lopsided, it’s because they are.

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