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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

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. For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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Legal threats from other IP holders? It is one of the primary reasons Sam was able to accomplish so much in 2014 because he could focus his time on what really mattered. He prepares board meetings, negotiates important contracts with partners and keeps the 4 VCs on the board in sync. You really want to spend your time on that?

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). You own the IP you create. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Israel & Japan: Konnichi Wa to Collaboration, Sayonara to Stagnation

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It is not even a top 10 trading partner. In 2014, then Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Toshimitsu Motegi , concluded a joint industrial R&D agreement in Israel. Also, patent review is slower than Europe, as noted by Maier Fenster of IP firm Ehlich & Fenster in his presentation IP in Japan.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

From Microsoft she went on to Netscape, where she was responsible for marketing of the Netscape Browser, and then LoudCloud, and now I’m happy to say she’s been my partner at SVPG for over a decade, and she also teaches marketing at UC Berkeley. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

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That was up from 30% in 2014. Then there’s a 2015 survey of 600 B2B marketers conducted by Crowd Research Partners , which found that 80% of marketers thought their lead generation efforts were only “slightly effective” or “somewhat effective.”. Image Source. First, the bot asks who the person would like to talk to (e.g.