VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? In the first five months of 2022, more than $120 billion have been invested in building out metaverse technology and infrastructure, according to McKinsey. Also, their $1.6 Every month, there are 5B downloads of apps built in Unity.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

At Remagine Ventures we like to say that “we invest in technologies that change how people spend their time and money”. Advancements in technology and changing cultural behaviour are big drivers of this trend and Covid-19 was like pouring gasoline on fire. . *by Kevin Baxpehler. Enter Toya . Opportunities & Challenges for Roblox .

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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. We were also positioned as experts in a specific technology, and as time passed, this space became more and more commoditized. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. Lessons Learned.

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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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The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2014

Yoav Leitersdorf and Ofer Schreiber of are partners at YL Ventures. B2B companies, often due to the higher barriers to develop a working product, have historically been less popular with early-stage investors – such barriers sometimes involve tough requirements for core IP and deep technology.

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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. I think I might have some IP, what do I do next? What they are.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2016

by Jeff Stark, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo. When using others (employees, contractors, third parties) to develop your technology, be sure that ownership of IP is assigned to the company. Jeff Stark is an Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

In fact, one of the most difficult obstacles for most businesses is convincing the main power houses (board members, directors, investors) to sign off on the budget needed to fully explore these opportunities; especially when it comes to investing in mobile technology, i.e. mobile app development. Data & Insight.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

.” “There’s no way we’re going to partner in this area. We will have to build (or buy) technology in this area.” It’s too strategic. ” Whatever this issue is.

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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. Helix will have liquidity at 366 days on a tightly regulated security token exchange.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

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 not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I also like to work with partners.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business. Be ready when it counts.

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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. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. Over the past 2.5

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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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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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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He was raised and educated in London. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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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 PMarchetti.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. .

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

If their intellectual IP is stolen or if they are discovered to have been a launching pad for attacks against a larger business partner, it can mean going out of business. Security is challenging enough to stay on top of when you have to worry about just your organization and your technology.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

Being a long-term partner is important to us since doing business online necessitates ongoing website and online marketing maintenance and improvement. When we work with our customers, we become their business partners and assist them expand their companies over time. Thanks to Lauren Edwards-Williams, Legend IP Consulting ! #26-

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The evening is sponsored by a Fortune 500 medical technology company. C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. Cell>Point ( www.cellpointweb.com ) is a late-stage biotech-molecular imaging and therapeutics company with strong IP.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Your deck should be so good that a VC asks you for permission to show it to his or her portfolio companies.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 29, 2022

If you have been reading the articles of my partner Eze on generative AI (here , here or here ), you know how easy it is to create content these days, from text to images to video. As the technology becomes more sophisticated, we can expect to see even higher quality and formats. Trust in the media is already at an all time low.

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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. What should my IP strategy be? Under What Conditions Can I Discuss My Technology? To ensure that your company owns its intellectual property, follow a few basic steps.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Ideas dont have a lot of value by themselves, they tend not to be unique, and by staying secret a startup gives up the chance to get valuable feedback from prospective customers and partners. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * Let me give you a real-world example.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As our work culture is becoming more technologically advanced, the value and convenience of e-signatures have gained a lot of popularity. Initially, the primary users of e-signature technology were businesses and organisations that had to execute contracts and legal documents electronically.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Jonathan is a speaker and advisor managing director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan. Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. I think about what's social, what's economic, what's technological.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And the technology we developed in the early two thousands and onward was blood draws and, you know, not really ready for prime time in the business setting. So now being able to get that data, the electrical signals associated with that from things like a smart watch, now you have a scalable and usable technology outside the lab.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. So universities have realized that for many students, promising a career in technology and entrepreneurship is key to recruiting high potential students. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

This is a technology-driven company and your background sounds great. After a few days I sent him my updated resume and he passed it on to Convergent Technologies. Ben ended up as my mentor at Convergent (and for the rest of my career), my peer at Ardent and my partner and co-founder at Epiphany. My Updated Resume.

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