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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. In some cases the accelerator provides initial funding themselves.)

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Can You Replace Lawyers With Software?

The Startup Magazine

You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. If your IP is unique and at the heart of your startup, you definitely need legal help to protect your business. If IP isn’t terribly important to your startup, you can seek alternative legal solutions. Intellectual property creation. Regulation.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Is there anything we can do about it?

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. The harsh reality is that if they can’t demonstrate traction, most startups won’t be able to convince investors to provide them with the capital they need to make it to the third, go-to-scale, phase.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price. I argued it in my post on how social proof helps fund raising with angel investors. “what you really need to get an angel round together are your “anchor tenants.” But that’s what great angels do. &# rings true to me.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Disclosure: he’s my cousin.

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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011: A Sign of Increasing Asian Technology Innovation

YoungUpstarts

It was also evident that Asia is becoming the darling for technology innovation, and is increasingly attracting the attention of financiers – venture capitalists, angel investors etc – from all over the world. “Asia is well known as the current region of growth, with rising inflow of funds and investments.

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