Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

You know, those internet-based phone systems that everyone is crazy about right now. To find out all about it and why you should consider SIP Trunk as a business opportunity, keep reading. Now, they buy a SIP trunk from an Internet Telephone Service Provider (ITSP), and it gets connected to a VoIP/IP PBX. What is a SIP Trunk?

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Technical Review IP Internet Audio 147

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. What about if elderly people never had to ask a relative or healthcare worker to change the batteries on their hearing aids? We hired IP specialists to review prior art.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

But it’s also about business paperwork. For startups established as an LLC, the operating agreement is the original blueprint that specifies how the company will be run and which members (partners) hold which responsibilities, among other concerns such as profit-sharing. Protect your intellectual property.

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Software Review Intellectual Property Limited Liability Company IP 114

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

Here are some stats about the gaming industry that might surprise you. Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. I’ve written more about that in my post Investing in the pillars of the Metaverse – which I highly recommend you check out.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. taxes are a company’s biggest worry, it might think about incorporating in the Cayman Islands or Ireland. “The number-one thing that will kill a company is if the founders haven’t assigned their IP to it,” according to Schmitz. If high U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Have you ever wondered about your digital ship navigating through unchartered cybersecurity waters with data pirates lurking? As the sector contains sensitive information about FinTech companies and individuals, it is a prime target for hackers seeking quick cash. As a result, the industry must be alert to cyber security concerns.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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NDA Stealth Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement 198

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable. Gradually, more professional gaming studios are choosing to develop on the platform, increasing the quality and the IP that enters the Metaverse.

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Toya is a female-led studio partnering with the biggest platforms in the gaming industry to develop and promote games that reflect equal opportunities, diverse characters, and more dynamic storylines across the gender spectrum. But what stood out in the process was Anat’s creative ideas about how games should be played on Roblox.

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Technical Review South Korea Due Diligence IP 179

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2016

Speaking intelligently about your company’s current (and future) performance means regular check-ins with your finances. If you don’t understand how much money your company is burning through each month, how can you expect to intelligently talk about your fiscal health? Read your books from cover to cover. Use burn rate as an example.

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Technical Review Burn Rate IP Intellectual Property 124

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . What can you do if you want to get smarter about the Metaverse? . What is the metaverse? Read, get involved and talk to people!

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Technical Review Non-Compete IP 217

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

All Good to Great companies began the process of finding a path to greatness by confronting the brutal facts about the reality of their business. You can read more about the methodology here and download a high res PDF here. I joked the other day that some of the best fairytales are written in Excel. Source: The SaaS Napkin.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. The key lies in thinking about the go-to-market phase as a number of sub-phases within the Traction Gap Framework. Think about MVT as: MVR plus multiple quarters of growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

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. I know it sounds crazy because you’re talking about friends or colleagues here. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree.

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BeyondVC

MAY 16, 2012

Lately questions about Intellectual Property or IP have been cropping up left and right. Eliot Durbin (my partner at BOLDstart Ventures) and I had a long discussion this morning in preparation for his panel today about IP and patents. So what is my and BOLDstart's stance on IP and startups.

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Intellectual Property IP Balance Sheet Startup 119

BeyondVC

MAY 16, 2012

Lately questions about Intellectual Property or IP have been cropping up left and right. Eliot Durbin (my partner at BOLDstart Ventures) and I had a long discussion this morning in preparation for his panel today about IP and patents. So what is my and BOLDstart's stance on IP and startups.

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Intellectual Property IP Balance Sheet Startup 119

NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2020

Protecting the potential value of an innovation with the right forms of intellectual property (IP) can be mission critical. An entrepreneur looking to crowdfund a new initiative must consider and secure their IP position prior to launching the funding campaign. I think I might have some IP, what do I do next?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

Ben Thompson has a smart Stratechery column today about Facebook’s emerging role as a Journalism Company. Steps we took included: Partnering with in-region or specialized human rights NGOs to help us verify content as authentic. And the internal discussions (debates?) which are likely occurring.

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Technical Review IP Algorithm Video 51

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2016

by Jeff Stark, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo. Make sure you align financial reporting and projections about the future of the business to your overall message. A successful purchase is about having your buyer’s trust and confidence. Jeff Stark is an Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo. Independent audit.

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Technical Review Due Diligence 100

Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

Ben Thompson has a smart Stratechery column today about Facebook’s emerging role as a Journalism Company. Steps we took included: Partnering with in-region or specialized human rights NGOs to help us verify content as authentic. And the internal discussions (debates?) which are likely occurring.

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Technical Review IP Algorithm Video 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

I’ve written a lot about recruiting and hiring at startups including my controversial post on whom not to hire and my rapid response to the flame war. I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. It’s too strategic.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. If you’ve successfully overcome challenges in the past, VCs will view that as evidence of your ability to do so in the future, so don’t worry about where you come from. Lots of founders get caught up in highlighting the product features they’re excited about.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” What that means is that for that last few decades the goal for every weapon system is about how does each generation get a bigger and bigger version of the same weapon system?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it. Over the course of the class Mira Medicine team spoke to over 80 customers, partners and payers. It includes reimbursement, regulation, IP, validation, channel access, etc. (We kept track of all this data by instrumenting the teams with LaunchPad Central software.).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Knowbella founder Jason Barkeloo answered some questions about his company. funders significantly lag.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

IP theft is happening a lot more in startups," says Chris Porter, senior security analyst at Verizon and coauthor of Verizon's recently released 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. "IP IP theft and other data breaches at startups are definitely trending up.". No amount of Red Bull can save your startup once your IP has been stolen.

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IP Security Intellectual Property Startup 121

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

You also have a partner in recovery: Generally, the burden can shift to your cloud provider. If your cloud servers go offline because of a disaster, then you might need to repoint your systems to new IP addresses temporarily. The cloud can handle the heavy lifting when it comes to recovering data or limiting downtime.

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Cloud Developer Azure Technical Review 115

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly Over the past 2.5 Why does that matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. About a year ago I had lunch with a guy who I believe is an amazing entrepreneur. This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In a move to reduce some of the barriers to IP transfer between academic research and entrepreneurship, the University of Glasgow has launched a new website " Easy Access IP " that will make some its intellectual property available to the public for free of charge, without cumbersome licensing rules and restrictions.

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IP Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Audience 118

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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