VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. The NFTs are owned by celebrities, tech execs and investors, and the NFT owners own 100% of the IP on their Apes and are able to generate derivative income from creating products bearing the apes picture: music, fashion, food/drink etc.

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. It is not uncommon for startup directors to be more deeply involved in the operations of the business when the company is entering a new market, hiring critical team members or raising capital. Risk and reward.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

Typically, the first few key hires in IT are ones that will help “keep the lights on,” deal with password lock-outs and provision and configure network services and company laptops. Hiring junior, or less experienced employees and keeping them once they are trained is a big challenge.

Differentiation 100

Differentiation Security Intellectual Property Non-Compete 100

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. The letter follows: To: Senator Udall, Senator Bennet.

Colorado 150

Colorado Internet Intellectual Property United States 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. Here’s a hack for you. Disclosure: he’s my cousin.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

You need to know how each tool operates. Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. Some solutions, like excluding your internal IP address, take just a couple minutes to implement. If you don’t have in-house expertise, you can hire CXL Agency to audit and fix your Google Analytics setup. How to fix it.

Analytics 88

Analytics IP Metrics Conversion 88

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. If a work for hire agreement is absent, the contractor, not the business, owns the contracted work.

Intellectual Property 123

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement IP NDA 123

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. Very different.

Early Stage 117

Early Stage Cap Table Acquisition Sales 117

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

While hired security guards, a close proximity to police, and guard dogs might work for some estates and businesses, camera surveillance is the most effective way to deter unlawful behavior. Its sturdy housing can easily operate between temperatures of 120° F and -20° F, making it a quintessential addition for outdoor monitoring.

IP 100

IP Louisiana Security Architecture 100

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. If you can beat them, hire them or acquire them. Sometimes they sue instead. Or push regulations.

Intellectual Property 102

Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 102

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. India’s vast talent pool is of interest to many international businesses open to hiring remotely overseas. Every market has its own unique advantages and obstacles to enter.

Global 95

Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Beyond that, even just acting as a sounding board on how the industry typically operates can help uncover new opportunity or avoid areas with unnaturally high risk. Operational Expertise. What about understanding some of the complexities around financial law or regulation that you dealt with in a previous role.

Pre-Money Valuation 187

Pre-Money Valuation Seed Stage IP Deal Flow 187

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. 2) Eliminate the friction by empowering your people.

New York 132

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 132

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

PPC 121

PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2015

Attackers use this invitation to damage online operations by spoofing the names of the legitimate bots and taxing application, network or infrastructure resources via illegitimate requests. Most website owners are more than happy to have the search engine bots (googlebot and bingbot, to name a couple) browsing their website all day long.

Search 100

Search Engineer IP Reputation 100

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 22, 2012

Intellectual Property (IP) is vitally important to start-ups. The Start-Up Genome Project , which aims to map, model and analyze what makes start-ups tick, identified IP as a top source of competitive advantage for start-ups. So while a start-up may operate only in the U.S. Discovery and Validation. Efficiency.

Intellectual Property 150

Intellectual Property IP Europe Asia 150

ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Though you could hire someone full time to sift through and analyze the pros and cons of each tool, it’s easier to learn from the experience of others and make a decision based on that. There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values.

Software Review 129

Software Review Technical Review Analytics Algorithm 129

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

We then raised a $5 million Series A, hired an outstanding CEO (Tom Pincine), and the company built v1.0 Once that was done, and rapid product iteration cycles, the company raised a Series B and is now scaling sales operations. of the product. With the success of v1.0

Venture Capital 37

Venture Capital Lean Technical Review Software Review 37

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

Are you hiring an employee? Perhaps you are hiring a company for custom work, or are talking to potential co-founders, angel investors, or venture capitalists. Please seek professional advice to ensure that your contracts of employment, consulting, operating agreement, articles of incorporation, etc. And that is the case here.

NDA 124

NDA Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Angel Investor 124

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Expanding your marketing, administration, and operations can present some serious challenges, however, if you prepare well in advance, then you will have no problem navigating the competitive business climate. Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. Update Your Plan. . #1

LBO 65

LBO Merger Social Media Startup 65

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Instead of hiring an external auditor, you can have your data saved in one place and simply carry out an audit. When your customer calls, a pop-up window showing their records would show up on your workers’ computer screen or their IP phone screen, enabling them to respond right away. Use a Managed Service Provider.

Software 89

Software IP Networking Employee 89

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

A p2p service marketplace where people can hire locals to run small errands (e.g. Pult basically wants enable people to instantly stream tailored content from a variety of Web services, pay-TV operators, VOD services and broadcasters to any connected screen, in any location, over an IP network. assemble a garden shed).

Startup 123

Startup IP Cloud Algorithm 123

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 8, 2020

We structure our businesses to grow into operations , that is close to synthetic organisms that have structure, routine, and timekeeping might. Losing essential and sensitive documents for a new IP development is terrible, losing the personal information of your clients in a breach can be catastrophic. Security Measures That Protect.

Curation 52

Curation IP Security Metrics 52

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Double-down on great people, process & IP. Everybody was raising a shit-ton of money.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 22, 2012

Intellectual Property (IP) is vitally important to start-ups. The Start-Up Genome Project , which aims to map, model and analyze what makes start-ups tick, identified IP as a top source of competitive advantage for start-ups. So while a start-up may operate only in the U.S. Efficiency Don’t be discouraged.

Intellectual Property 84

Intellectual Property IP Europe Asia 84

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.” He did it so well and with such a smile on his face, that we started adding on more responsibilities, ultimately putting him in charge of our IP violations process. ” ~ Samuel Gompers .

Bosnia 67

Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2016

After all, building a business by marketing your idea, finding partners, hiring contractors and seeking financing all create opportunities for your idea to be stolen. Unless you have baked in the proper IP protection, it’s far too easy for a great idea to be replicated and for you to be out of the game before even getting started.

IP 100

IP Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property United States 100

NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

At least not in the way you may be hoping eg free money or loans that you can use to buy inventory, rent or buy a premise, build an app, hire staff, pay for marketing or any of the usual things you might need to do when you start a business. And quite frankly, nor should there be. Research and development. Work and Income (WINZ) grants.

Government 66

Government New Zealand Incubator Intellectual Property 66

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 22, 2012

Intellectual Property (IP) is vitally important to start-ups. The Start-Up Genome Project , which aims to map, model and analyze what makes start-ups tick, identified IP as a top source of competitive advantage for start-ups. So while a start-up may operate only in the U.S. Discovery and Validation. Efficiency.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property IP Europe Asia 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Here are a few ways for startups to reduce operating costs so they can function more efficiently, and make every dollar count: 1. The cost to physically operate a business can turn into a major financial burden for startups. Hire Freelancers and Contract Employees. Minimize Premises Costs. Remain Flexible.

Operations 191

Operations Cost Startup Florida 191