ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Foreign visitors to Silicon Valley continually mention how willing we are to help, network and connect strangers. Today, in spite of the fact that the valley is crawling with IP lawyers, the tradition of helping and sharing continues. We take it so for granted we never even to bother to talk about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

There is a second set of career discussions I have even more frequently than my “angel yourself” advice but this type is almost never discussed publicly in blogs, which tend to emphasize only billion-dollar opportunities, 20-something technical founders and Silicon Valley elitism. I saved my main point for last.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Of all the television shows that center around businesses, none feel closer to reality than HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Image via HBO.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . (He was part of the Sandbox network - a group of incredibly smart under 30 year olds.).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. I believe the famous Ron Conway made about 300 investments in his Silicon Valley angel fund in the late 90’s, and his one big win was?—?Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. Founder fighting, IP lawsuits, high-profile resignations, trouble fund raising, bad product release, 409a complications, community is rebelling against the CEO: You.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Foreign visitors to Silicon Valley continually mention how willing we are to help, network and connect strangers. Today, in spite of the fact that the valley is crawling with IP lawyers, the tradition of helping and sharing continues. Filed under: Family/Career , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Teaching.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

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. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It’s just a fad propped up by the Silicon Valley elite marketing machine.” I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. By now it had been in the press a bunch and there was a sort of “here we go again” attitude. “It will never work. ” Wow.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s how things are done across the country outside of Silicon Valley. You own the IP you create. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. That’s the right answer for VCs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

When I got my first job in Silicon Valley it was through serendipity (my part) and desperation (on the part of my first employer.) It was at my second startup in Silicon Valley that my life and career took an interesting turn. I thought this was going to be a story-telling interview like the others.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 25, 2013

I am…very bullish on Silicon Valley. I view Silicon Valley as a network effect…; it’s a sink for talent….” (at IP integrity is still a challenge.” (at Entrepreneurship Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed 500 Startups Dave McClure helping entrepreneurs lean startup Marc Andreessen silicon valley'

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Button-down IP ownership and assignment issues (see post here ). Incorporate in Delaware and qualify the company to do business in the state in which its principal office is located (see #2 here ). Set-up vesting schedules for the founders (see post here ) and file 83(b) elections with the IRS (see #3 here ). None of this is rocket science.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Companies that are currently pursuing similar products include 10eqs (connecting experts with applicable research projects); Article One (patent and IP research); Experts 123 (expert articles with revenue sharing); and Wonder (connect people to company research questions; I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. How about your Investors ? At this writing, the first salvos have been fired in Gurley v. Kalanick, former investor BFF turned highly disappointed by founder behavior.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Vinod wants to raise a significant amount of money to buy out an IP vendor that sells semiconductor interconnect IP, and offer value added services around them. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. Choose one segment, one service, and one geography.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Button-down IP ownership and assignment issues (see post here ). Incorporate in Delaware and qualify the company to do business in the state in which its principal office is located (see #2 here ). Set-up vesting schedules for the founders (see post here ) and file 83(b) elections with the IRS (see #3 here ).

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Who are the best startup consultants in Silicon Valley?…

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Hippoland

APRIL 10, 2016

Ada is my professor, and we are using her lab, and the company is based on her research, though the IP is assigned to the company. Standard vesting practices in the Silicon Valley at this time of writing are 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff. Dear elizy : I started a company in school with two co-founders.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

I think that Edward can not only build a successful outsourcing services company based on this premise, he can also build an IP portfolio and potentially a platform product that would make it more compelling, specialized, and higher-margin business than any old labor arbitrage shop. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

6 months afterwards they laid off 75% of their staff and are existing on fumes to protect their IP to this day. Brand name Silicon Valley firms had put in about $20 million into Company A. Company A never raised their round. Company B is struggling, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Most won’t be of the quality that you want but you now have tons of material and inspiration for your show and you own all of the submitted IP. And I’ve opined on why the traditional media companies aren’t well poised to win at this new TV world. and again here. It’s American Idol for makers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. It could be an urban area where several startups settle (think Silicon Alley in London) or a grass roots organization like the famous ‘ home-brew computer club ‘ or even a hipster coffee place like Berlin’s Oberholz cafe.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

This morning I gave the keynote speech at the ICAP Ocean Tomo IP auction in San Francisco. legislation that will transform the U.S. patent system and broadly impact intellectual property rights in our country.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My blog also allowed me to indulge my interest in a few other subjects: The Secret History of Silicon Valley , thoughts on a career as an entrepreneur, observations about family and startups, etc. The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy………… 65. Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley……… 214.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tech world has seen a shift away from Silicon Valley, with Israel now dominating the world’s startup economy. Startups created within Israel would then use the talent nurtured by international firms to develop IPs and brands that were totally Israeli.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D and part two on Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. . Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.” Yeah, I said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I’d encourage you to watch this quick 3-minute video with some views on what I call “ The Co-Founder Mythology ” that is perpetuated in Silicon Valley. I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

Silicon Valley’s New Secret Weapon: Designers Who Found Startups – [link]. Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA And Protect IP – [link]. Starting a new biz with a friend? Good interview with @mike_samson about biz w/ friends - [link]. ” – [link].

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

This region is well-known as the home of Silicon Valley, as well as a growing tech hub in the San Francisco Bay Area. They invest in strong teams, massive market opportunities, and novel IP. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. Southern California.

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