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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S.

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). But we’re a technology company that produces great video not the other way around. Expect to hear a lot more about Maker technology in the next 18 months.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. Additionally, our products often use new technologies and require people to change their behavior, such as using a camera to talk with their friends. Back to Snap.

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Glory Days for US Technology

Seeing Both Sides

The US technology industry has never been in better shape, and has arguably entered what may become one of the greatest sector growth eras in business history. Lost in the news of the tepid (now maybe solid) recovery over the last year is that the top US technology firms have become absolute world beaters and are surging through the recovery.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. The service is a proven revenue generator for Media Companies (TV, newspapers, Radio stations), VAS providers and carriers. private networks, in nearly 100 countries.

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