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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. non-public technology. technology, business information. _. new technology. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Intellectual Property. Inventions.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures. Amara’s Law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”. Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue.

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The future of service marketplaces is AI

VC Cafe

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. As marketplaces transformed the way we buy goods online, technology is about to do the same to service market. AI hype cycle.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Larry had the DNA I’ve seen common with all the successful entrepreneurs I’ve backed in my 25 years of Venture Capital work—only he had a more exaggerated case than most. Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

VC Cafe

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever. Let’s dive in! Let’s dive in!

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