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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. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example.

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

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. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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Abstract launches private alpha to redesign the design process

Version One Ventures

Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. From these posts, it should be clear that we get excited about social and collaborative platforms where there are strong network effects , virality and daily utility. You can read co-founder Josh Brewer’s announcement here.

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Discovery is the problem in gaming

Lightspeed Venture Partners

In 2009, viral growth through invitations and notification were the way that Facebook games could get discovered. Publishers with a hugely successful hit game can often milk the IP with subsequent releases. Borrowing IP from another media. Kixeye , a Lightspeed portfolio company, has followed this approach with great success.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . Banks invested because they wanted access to our large and growing consumer base or to try to catch the lightning in the bottle of our virally growing payments business. .

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot. What will you find here?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot. What will you find here?