Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you want to be a YouTube MCN producer the problem is compounded by the fact that of course the talent needs to make money as well. Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. Sound interesting? Back to video.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. If you’re wildly successful early on or if they help you achieve a great valuation they actually pay a significant price for their eventual stock even though they took much more risk than a future investor and backed you early. There were no metrics. Employment.

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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. Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? Another big “gotcha&# for me is that you expect lawyers to help you negotiate good deals.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. Compelling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Of course you could start your own company. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. My point is that when VCs need executive help you can often negotiate a bit on the way in for something that fixes the “fixer-upper” problems. For many people that’s the right answer.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

My real goal is to help others not comprehensively thank all of our great teams. They can help you understand gross margins and how to avoid signing bad deals. They can help you with pricing. A great CFO can help you negotiate venture debt to extend your runway or cover these working capital timing issues. Board meetings.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. That was a $250M line of business when I left.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. You're also seeing of course, the PC makers, people like Alienware, Dell, and Nvidia, supporting these. That's what's exciting about this.

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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’ll help you raise the fund. I finally called bullshit.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

” Whether trademark holders submit their own trademarks to the Clearinghouse, or get help from a verified agent, the same process applies: The TMCH verifies both that a trademark is valid and that the company is actively using it. This window of time (i.e. Demand for that knowledge is growing, as far as we can see.”

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Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

Another problem that arises in financings these days is that after a VC submits a $2 million term sheet all of a sudden a large number of “helpful investors” pop up who were waiting for a “strong lead” and now all of a sudden a $2 million round becomes a $2.75m round. Those are the big three. Size of my check.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 150

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Working with startup lawyers also minimizes the risk of losing control of your adVenture, as they can help you avoid common fundraising and investor pitfalls. In addition, such an arrangement will further cement your lawyer’s incentive to help you succeed. This will allow you to defer a portion of your of up-front legal costs.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. As I mentioned toone user who asked me for help, trying to block all undesirable bots from your site is like trying to rid the world of pests.Swat one, and another few will take its place. They look like "127.0.0.1". htaccess ".

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Of course you know Gangnam Style , which is now the most viewed video in history at 1.3 They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. And the fan producers all help market your show because they too want the attention.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!” ” The Details. Investors value growth.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

First off, can you help us understand where Airhop fits into the 4G networking market? Over the course of that, we thought about what the solution might be. What we wanted to do, was focus on the high IP content, where there is a high barrier to entry. Thanks for the time today. Back then, it was only 3.6

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Networking Startup Software Tips 153

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. This helps you get your deal done in the first place and it helps you get better terms. Help schedule the actual calls for them. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 Yes, this was stupid.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 27, 2015

Of course, it’s nice to have new things that work better and faster, but it seems like the moment we finally understand one technology, it’s replaced by something else. IPv6 is the latest Internet Protocol (IP). The rate at which technology increases is sometimes frustrating. The best way to handle this situation is through testing.

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Training Organization Networking IP 40

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

As we did not require users to sign in, we were forced to correlate IP addresses with company names, which, in 1999, was an inexact and very manual science. In the course of a few months, despite the cumbersome sales cycle, we finalized deals with a number of former BuddyHelp users including CompUSA, Blackbaud and Cox.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

IP Risk – The closer the Serial Team’s new adVenture is to their prior successes, the greater the risk that they may be accused of infringing on their former company’s intellectual property (IP). 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.

Startup 150

Startup IP Entrepreneur Software Review 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !==

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SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. We're hoping to create a content rediscovery tool, which helps readers discovery yesterday's content and drive more advertising to publishers as a result of people finding that older, forgotten content.

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