InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues” . 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

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

Startup 383

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

A little background: 409A valuations are named for the section of Internal Revenue Code Section that created them in 2007. The industry’s competitive dynamics. Recent equity sales i.e., comparables. The government’s goal was to ensure that federal income taxes are paid on stock issued as a part of deferred compensation plans.

IP 40

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In any sale--and raising money is a sale--establishing credibility early on is important. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. It's also good to talk somewhat about the competition, and why this ideas is different from the others.

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