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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

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.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

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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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

socalTECH

Don Patterson: I was doing my graduate studies at the University of Washington, and was doing things in the field of activity recognition, which is recognizing sensors and getting computers to identifying what people are doing. So, I pulled up the UC Irvine faculty list, and started calling professors.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Then over time you can add reports that will give you the CPA, activation rate, viral rates, retention rates, etc. Block IP address. Block username. Block email. 1 week ago. Remove Post.

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