Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

HW: You were co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, one of the most successful podcasts out there. Highly-produced shows cost a fortune: tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode. I find many people on twitter to have great thoughts when news breaks. But I don’t send them. And that is great.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder. The world is much safer for non-founders.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Mistake #2 : not buttoning-down IP ownership issues (at 10:20). different perspective as a lawyer (lots of phone calls from founders with problems). Mistake #2: Not Buttoning-Down IP Ownership Issues. Vesting schedules must be established to protect the other co-founders (plus, VC’s will typically require them).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Maybe you worked there or a co-founder or investor has some juice). The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. Often they’ll agree if it means a steep hourly discount or cheaper maintenance costs.) You land a contract to build them the solution.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Prior to the event, I conducted a legal workshop entitled “The 5 Biggest Legal Mistakes That Startups Make,” which I have uploaded below.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. All key technologies for autonomous driving.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Member Desk is a virtual and yet it can also be physical, literally sitting in the front of the co- working space inexpensive way to do that for pretty much any organization. They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

A few takeaways from the podcast: Meta is launching a new hardware VR headset in October this year (currently called “Project Cambria” but it’s likely to be “Quest Pro”) The new device will cost $800 and will help users experience a feeling of “social presence.” Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. Presently, I'm focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. Ralph Rivera.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Generative AI can dramatically reduce the cost and the speed of creating 2D and 3D content for games, but there are a few nuances worth keeping in mind, see below section of the challenges of generative AI gaming startups. Also, it’s hard to change habits in existing workflows IP concerns (who owns it? Here's why ?

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

" We all have heard/repeated the investment mantra about "big, growing markets" with "unfair advantage IP" position.  Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.  Investors would like to see lowest cost - but with certainty.  Will the product work? .

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. 2) You’re hiring employees. Blog Categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. I’d encourage you to watch this quick 3-minute video with some views on what I call “ The Co-Founder Mythology ” that is perpetuated in Silicon Valley. Lawsuits are on the rise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

Patent applications represent the hope for defensible protection, as the most a company can truthfully tell investors is that the company owns its IP. First all employees, including founders, should sign invention assignment agreements. What should my IP strategy be? Should I file a Provisional Patent Application?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Otherwise it's a great idea. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the analogou sventure capitalist motto to ‘Think in Public?’

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nickpoint.co.uk

OCTOBER 23, 2010

» 5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers By Nick Barker As there are just two of us ( Simon Oxley – my co-founder and I) in our startup we need outside help. As a Bootstrappping startup costs need to be kept down but cut too much and the job maybe be badly done. How much to pay?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I believe that looking at hardware curves is always simpler and more accurate. Why It Works Part Two: Crowdsourcing.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. The title is not important; the work they do is. In 1993, Word 6.0 was the biggest release, feature-wise, Microsoft had ever produced up until then.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

For the majority of new business owners, there are no Government funds that will give you the founder, cash to start your new business. The New Zealand Government wishes to stimulate the creation of more high growth businesses and build on our intellectual property (“IP”) in science and technology related businesses.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

It would be ideal if Yale built a similar tool which allowed students to filter for companies with a) quality teams, b) >10 employees, c) backed by a credible VC, and d) (optional) a Yale cofounder. NYU just widened the door for more people to benefit from and contribute to their network, at nominal cost. Founder community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

If you’re a solo founder and haven’t built out your team or engineers I’m likely to want 15+%. Of course investors care about controls (board, protective provisions, IP assignments, non-solicitation) but these are all pretty standard. million and the founder starts thinking, “yeah, $3.5

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

LawPivot's co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers. Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. Legal questions about the establishing, incorporating, or funding a startup are among the most common that entrepreneurs have.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Steve Kelly, Lead Investor; Godfrey Nazareth, President & CEO; and Matthew Maltese PhD, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Apple.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Non of this academic stuff.

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