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 nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? Why Build a Services Business in the First Place?
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? They've talked about this in their book, Do More Faster, where they talk about a variety of web services, including Sendgrid. Controlling your IP address is a big deal.
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Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 3, 2015
Equally important, is an area many startup founders don’t always prioritize: choosing the right service providers and understanding the value they can bring, especially to early-stage startups. Teaming with the right service providers can have a huge impact on a startup’s ability to succeed. And relying on NDAs is not the answer.
socalTECH
JUNE 9, 2014
That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. We find the content they want, and we user our technology and people to service the show. How did this go from content on a channel to a company?
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2018
That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services. My initiative at Support.com was to introduce new products into the support space, as a Software-as-a-Service product. I moved over, halfway in my tenure, to be GM in on the IP support line of the business, which included GoToMyPC and GoToAssist.
InfoChachkie
MAY 16, 2011
Thus, follow the guidelines outlined in IP – Worthless To A Startup and only spend significant time and effort protecting your intellectual property when it is clear what you are trying to protect. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2010
I had joined AC in 1991 as a programmer when it was a relatively small practice focused on building corporate IT systems for Fortune 500 companies and there were a handful of companies that offered the same service. Double-down on great people, process & IP. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though.
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