YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

When I negotiated crowdSPRING’s initial contract for internet and IP phone service, we had a few important deal terms (price, reliability, redundancy) and I made those terms very clear in the beginning. You can learn more in his e-book.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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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 about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here.

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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 about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. A major reason for incorporating is to have the founders assign their IP to the company; it is far easier for a business to contract with a startup when the IP is owned by one entity. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship. If high U.S.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. Go-to-Product. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. Go-to-Market. Go-to-Scale. In other words, they need go-to-market traction.

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The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2014

Yoav Leitersdorf and Ofer Schreiber of are partners at YL Ventures. Developing an enterprise-grade SaaS product is not easy. The keys are maintaining capital efficiency, launching early versions to the SMB market and constantly applying customer development methods. And more importantly, B2B companies.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The reality faced by entrepreneurs is that legal services can be expensive and IP protection may not be an initial priority. But having an IP strategy can help you get the most from your IP and help minimize common pitfalls and legal expenses. Trade marks. It’s best to select a mark and use it consistently.

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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. Many claim that crowdfunding has democratised business investment.

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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. Yes, having core tech or IP matters but patents are a different question altogether.

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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. Yes, having core tech or IP matters but patents are a different question altogether.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

by Sam Furr, founder & Head of Product Strategy of Tappable. Yes, change is daunting, but the right change, partnered with experience of credible suppliers and partners, can help unlock the potential of mobile apps. This will also generate enterprise value through adding a new IP. Cost Saving by Automation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

.” “There’s no way we’re going to partner in this area. The thing is … what I see many sales execs do is burn up countless hours on mid-level campaigns that get torpedoed when the go up the organization due to lack of budget, a desire to own that core IP or other more pressing organization priorities.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. If you can check these boxes and convince venture capitalists that you’ve achieved product fit in a market with plenty of room for growth, you have a real shot at securing funding. Do you lack the skills needed to develop a viable product? Prepare to prove your worth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners. Get to know them.

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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. We already have the scientific collaboration Knowbella Platform at Minimal Viable Product (MVP).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. Over the past 2.5

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. That’s hard core.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. more likely to successfully scale with product-centric startups with no network effects than with product-centric startups that have network effects.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The top talent, customers, business partners, and just about everybody else value companies with strong CSR programs. By embracing CSR, you signal to your present and future customers and business partners and employees that you are somebody that they should be doing business with. And it’s missing out, as a result.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

These businesses are full of new ideas for services, new products – and improvements to existing ones. Ironically, though, many early stage cyber security companies initially target their offerings to the Fortune 500 and look to move down market to SMBs much later in their product life-cycle – and, sometimes not at all.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Being a long-term partner is important to us since doing business online necessitates ongoing website and online marketing maintenance and improvement. 6- Producing products people love.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Presenting Companies: Axiomed ( www.axiomed.com ) has a 2nd generation Total Disc Replacement (TDR) product that holds promise to improve outcomes for the millions of people that suffer from degenerative disc disease. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

All of my partners at Upfront do. One beautiful thing about being a private company is you get to test your pricing, your packaging, your product roadmap, your executive team and your fund raising strategy without public scrutiny or competitors gaining this knowledge. The right ones are invaluable additions. Information leaks.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Partnering up with an MPS provider will help keep the costs down, but it’ll also increase efficiency and productivity, allowing you to see significant returns in profits each year. You’ll Anticipate More Accurate Budget. This is the result of anticipating an accurate budget for your business upon hiring an MPS company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. Legal threats from other IP holders? Here’s the dilemma.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Arlo and AJ had built a stunning new way of doing product discovery for soft goods. So far, almost every shopping website shows products either in an endless list of “Next Page” links (hint hint Amazon — you have so much room for improvement!), or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it.

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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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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. 5) You’re ready to launch your product.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com). But you need simplicity to build a great enduring product and company. Since then, the company has gone through an amazing journey.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. 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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Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. 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