Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. We looked at the IP and realized it was highly differentiated / hard to replicate.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to. Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. He is author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog and a frequent speaker at industry events.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. ” I highly recommend reading it. Profitability. The answer is more complex than just Gross vs. Net Burn.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

Inworld AI – readers of this blog would have already heard about Dall-E, the AI for creating stunning visual art from text input. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). Ready Player Me avatars ( source ). Bored Ape M&Ms.

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IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

It's something that trademarked IP that I call the marketing hourglass. We still use blog or content management system technology, but we don't use it in the, in the sort of fa linear, chronological fashion that people come to think about blogs on. Meaning like, give me a thousand word blog post. It's pretty cool.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

You don’t even need your own Twitter account and Facebook page and WordPress blog because your customers will spread the love for you. The IP attorneys would say that we’re bleeding assets, but what we’re actually doing is earning the respect, attention, and sometimes even love from the entire WordPress community.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

” After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox [Alex Barasch/NewYorker] – Came out before the movie opened, so the insider account of how the IP negotiations occurred is even more astounding as box office approaches $1B.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. If you’re interested in that discussion, my advisor and mentor, Brad Feld has written extensively about software patents on his blog.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. Since this is not a blog about legal issues (and I'm not a lawyer!) But information like IP address, browser user agent id, time stamps, page urls and much more are recorded in web logs. All other data should be fine.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Feed Blog. 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business. Jason Evanish's blog. | Blog Categories. Skip to Navigation. >.

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Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2020

There could also be the consequence of IP theft, loss of company privacy or the loss of customer privacy. If the board director or employee leaves the company, it would be very difficult to retake ownership of the accounts that actually belong to the company.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This is my personal blog. My professional blog is. If youve read my Cult of the NDA article (which, by the way, remains one of the most-read articles on this blog), then you know that I think good luck and good execution are far more important to success in a startup than a Really Big Idea. Browse archives by date. Categories.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Yes, that additional $6 mil is not as hard to accomplished for an imaginative focused team – in fact you can get that from implementing half of the recommendations in this blog post. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. In-stock status. Personalization.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Or you plan to start your own blog. That photo you took from Google thinking it was okay to upload on your blog? How about a photoshoot you spent hours on, only to find out that someone has snatched it to use on their own blog? You don’t want someone grabbing something from your blog and use it for their website.

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Intellectual Property IP Audio Search 123

Andrew Payne

AUGUST 3, 2011

If you’re one of the five people that read this blog, you know I’ve become negative on many pure-software/Internet/mobile entrepreneurial projects. There are a number of ways (this is the first in an ad-hoc series of blog posts). So, how do entrepreneurs avoid the lottery?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

My business doesn’t have IP. 100% of businesses have Intellectual Property (IP). IP is not just for tech businesses or inventors. Even if you simply decide to launch a crowdfunding campaign, you’re exposing your IP to risk. In fact, over 90 percent of a startups’ value can be made up of IP. Do you own it?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. You can verify the real Googlebot for your site.).

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2017

Content marketing has all but replaced traditional marketing, making branded blogs a necessary element of any business strategy. With that in mind, here are the WordPress plugins you can use to fully optimize your blog for user experience and lead generation. If you’ve ever had to do this, you already know it is quite a chore.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2020

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. El Toro : Reshaping online and digital advertising through the patented approach of matching a physical address to an IP address. Weekend Favs June 20 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In order to protect your business’s IP, learn the four different categories. Yes, your business has intellectual property (IP). In fact, 100 percent of businesses have IP. Your email list, logo, sales process, and even your website domain are parts of your IP. Three reasons to learn more about IP: 1.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP Design 112

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

As a business owner, it is your responsibility to make sure that you are protecting your IP and not committing IP infringement. Today, she shares this fascination to numerous others by blogging about different aspects of marketing and business. An attorney well-versed in trademark and copyright law is best to have by your side.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Monopoly markets and IP protected innovations being rare exceptions). The new margin gets competed away. Competitors respond and also reduce price to maintain market share either by adopting similar technology or cutting margins. Car prices are a good example. In the past 30 years due to automation prices have dropped radically.

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IP Technical Review Australia Distribution 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2016

Is the office IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of your affiliates filtered out (agencies, freelancers, etc.)? Is your home IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of remote employees filtered out? Are you doing country filtering? Is your default page and time zone configured properly? Filter Creation.

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Analytics Software Review eCommerce PPC 48

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

There are two very disturbing bills making their way through Congress: Protect IP Act (PIPA - S.968 If you run a website or have a blog, go to the American Censorship site to see how you can participate on 11/16/11. PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Egypt IP Architecture Internet 175

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This is another one where I wish I would have recorded pitches and scanned the audience of investors to show their faces and body language as the CEO delivering the pitch starts schpealing out things like, “our IP is strong because we’re ISO complaint and we’ve cornered the ABC market by using the XYZ technical blah blah blah.”

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Hockey Stick Technical Review Due Diligence Seattle 114

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. " We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position. Subscribe to this blogs feed. Bootstrapping.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

You own the IP you create. Even tech blogs know this. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. My advice wasn’t to shut down all product / IP initiatives but rather to be clear on their purpose and how to monetize them. But this lesson in business was never lost on me.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. You need to do it yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

So if entrepreneurs want to pioneer new ideas with a lean model, my advice is to use low cost alternatives to build differentiality that can be protected from institutions with far more money than ethics, creativity, or innovation-- other than skirting the loopholes in our justice system regarding protection of IP, and honing predatory tactics.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . One major player pushing forward this vision is Jack Mallers’ Strike , a simple app that allows anyone to use the Lightning Network with a USD bank account.

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Networking Global OTC Security 168

Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

Many quarters and dollars later, the Western CEO leaves with some China experience and the Chinese partner keeps the IP, money, business… You cannot fight the nature of the beast, this is China. The Chinese are used to this Western arrogance and welcome the foreigners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. For example, while all of your blog posts may qualify as “Informational” in intent, some may serve users in different stages of awareness: Fitting keywords into the customer journey is a better way to segment intent. Geography (i.e.

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Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. It’s a highly engaged audience and the content generated from many of the blogs (not all) are highly valuable. If you use any standard commenting system on your blog or website you’re sub-optimizing engagement.

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