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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. It’s also important to realize how little value investors therefore put on IP when investing in a company. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes to Watch-Out For

Scott Edward Walker

Over the past six months, my firm has been engaged by a number of startups with significant intellectual property (“IP”) problems. In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm.

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What To Consider As A New Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Investing in Technology & IT Another area you’ll want to concentrate on as a new business owner is technology and IT solutions. Consider leasing an IP address by working with an ARIN Qualified Facilitator. This will offer you cost savings and you’ll sleep better knowing you have support in this area of your business.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

We just completed the eighth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. IP & Protected Personal Information Theft.

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

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. non-public technology. new technology.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless. Could we produce this at cost? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. This kicked off a frantic process of discovery for me personally. Was it safe?

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An Overview Of The SIP Trunk Definition And What It Takes To Sell

YoungUpstarts

SIP, which stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is one of the more common protocols in voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technologies. The traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), with its Analog lines, E1 ISDN BRI, or T1 lines, has begun to be replaced by IP telephone systems. What Is SIP? What is a SIP Trunk?