Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Marty Zwilling. entrepreneur Lodsys software patents startup'

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Software Review Software Technical Review Intellectual Property 250

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Intellectual Property 343

Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition.

Non-Compete 262

Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 262

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Whether it is intellectual property theft, contractual disputes, or white-collar crimes like embezzlement or fraud, a single legal hiccup could significantly jeopardize your business’s future prospects. Protecting your innovation and safeguarding your intellectual property should be a top priority for any startup founder.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Startup 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Use acquisitions to complement organic growth. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth. Do your homework privately to assess realistic value, intellectual property, and build relationships.

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Intellectual Property Acquisition Non-Compete Merger 322

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2013

Values intellectual property. This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Angel Investor Elevator Pitch 273

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Data rooms can also store company copyrighted works, trade secrets, and intellectual property. During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. For instance startup companies that much need to safeguard their IP ( intellectual property ) for survival and growth.

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Software Review Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2012

Values intellectual property. This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Angel Investor Elevator Pitch 294

Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Invested Interests software patents startups trolls'

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Software Review Software Technical Review Intellectual Property 173

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Future opportunity size doesn’t count in the early stages.

Angel Investor 313

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 313

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

But patents and other intellectual property only go so far. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). That’s because it’s a sure bet that someone else is working on the same idea – if not, it’s probably a bad idea. Defensibility. Exit strategy.

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Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs. These normally include people, tangible property, intellectual property, and cash flow requirements.

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Business Model Intellectual Property Angel Investor Channel 334

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

You will have to acquire other patents through a legal acquisition process in the case of a Closed patent, to add the original patent. A patent provides a means to protect your intellectual property. Your attorney’s goal is to establish barriers to entry, wherever you intellectual property is infringed upon.

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Intellectual Property Forecast LLC Acquisition 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition.

Non-Compete 317

Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 317

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Investors like to see new intellectual property as a barrier to entry. Investors expect to hear annual revenues, average margins, customer acquisition costs and sales pipelines. Every investor I know has seen multiple plans to add more features to Facebook, or add yet another dating site.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence Angel Investor 134

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Intellectual Property 360

Intellectual Property Social Network Metrics .Net 360

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Of course, these are important ingredients to growth, but the – perhaps unconventional – truth is that this kind of growth can be riskier and less compelling to investors than growth through acquisition. Set clear financial objectives for an acquisition and create benchmarks to gauge attractiveness of potential target companies.

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Acquisition Finance Raleigh Mezzanine 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships. Make sure you don’t violate even the spirit of local laws or customs, and make sure your intellectual property is protected with proper two-way non-disclosure agreements before you start.

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Partner Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete 434

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Values intellectual property. This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor Technical Review Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 241

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Investors know that operational and employee expenses are always higher than anticipated, not to mention customer acquisition costs, capital expenses, and ongoing competitive initiatives. Identify your intellectual property or “secret sauce.”

Intellectual Property 332

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Business Model Channel 332

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. Patents can raise startup valuation by investors by as much as a million dollars, and will attract acquisitions rather than copycats. Technology that can’t be sold for a profit or appeals only to early adopters is not a viable business.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Patents or other intellectual property are a real competitive advantage for a startup, but first to market and working harder are not sustainable. The best way to do this is to highlight a recent similar company payback to investors, via going public or acquisition exit. Focus on a specific market segment to match your solution.

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Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. Related discussions include intellectual property status and plans. The same is true of Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank investments you see on TV.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Intellectual Property 120

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Hospital trustees also need to be aware of how mergers and acquisitions create potential new risks and vulnerabilities. It’s a place where they can get credit card information, confidential health information, personal information, business information, and intellectual property all under one roof.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Security Merger 52

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. Future opportunity size doesn’t count in the early stages.

Angel Investor 370

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. The result was that we couldn’t find internal homes for what would have been great projects or spinouts.

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development Acquisition 328

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

That’s where acquisition comes in — if you can’t make it, buy it! In this case, all the typically-valuable things like “multiples&# or intellectual property or the customer base or the product-market fit or the market size are irrelevant. That's where acquisition comes in -- if you can't make it, buy it!

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 7, 2016

At a conference last week Autodesk CEO Carl Bass said that he thinks about acquisitions in three buckets: companies that are really people who have a technology that Autodesk wants to build up (acquihires). large scale acquisitions. middle-size companies, meaning they have product that they’re selling, maybe even internationally.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Valuation 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs. These normally include people, tangible property, intellectual property, and cash flow requirements.

Intellectual Property 250

Intellectual Property Business Model Angel Investor Channel 250

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Whether the information is trade secrets, business know-how, financial data, product plans, customer acquisition strategies, the information a business possesses is what makes it valuable and unique. Intellectual Property. Similar to a business’s information, a business’s intellectual property can be one of its main assets.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete Cofounder 100

SiliconHills

APRIL 28, 2015

In its first acquisition, Bigcommerce announced Tuesday its purchase of Zing, an Austin-based startup that provides mobile retail technologies. The company has also acquired Zing’s intellectual property. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zing’s team of five employees will join Bigcommerce.

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Acquisition Austin Intellectual Property Mobile 48

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

No matter what you do, you want to make sure that in the process that you protect your intellectual property, have non-disclosure agreements in place, if possible non-circumvents. Being wholly owned has the same effect, but it does obviously require a merger or an acquisition to occur. Lock down rights and security.

Technical Review 155

Technical Review Securities and Exchange Commission Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence 155

Transformify

JANUARY 7, 2019

How is the intellectual property of the employer protected in case of artwork or a piece of code? What is the likelihood for the tax authorities to chase the employer for information on the paid fees and is the employer liable for disclosing information as part of monthly or annual reports to a government agency, etc.?

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Hiring Intellectual Property Software Review NDA 74

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition. Longer term, when ready, it may be time for merger or acquisition.

Partner 147

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 147

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets acquirers seek in startups. Smaller companies with hotter brands can make for great acquisitions. It can be a way to turn a company profitable, conduct a roll-up for a larger acquisition, and appease investors. . Think about a Google or Apple acquisition of Tesla.

Intellectual Property 101

Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Intellectual Property 160

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Metrics .Net 160