Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs are inherently risk takers.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly VCs have different views and strategies on this.
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InfoChachkie
AUGUST 10, 2010
Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.
InfoChachkie
JULY 7, 2010
It is not uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to work as a team, take some time off for a victory lap or two and then “get the band back together” in order to build upon their prior successes. Thus, care should be taken when crafting the band’s reunion tour to ensure they do not inadvertently run afoul of third-party IP rights.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 8, 2011
John Greathouse , Entrepreneur, Investor, Professor and Freshman In The School Of Life. I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Listing a variety of bread-and-butter IP protection tactics would not have been as compelling. I encourage emerging entrepreneurs to utilize Quora.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us.
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