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. Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly
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
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). That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.
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. 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. The industry’s competitive dynamics.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 8, 2011
Listing a variety of bread-and-butter IP protection tactics would not have been as compelling. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Deeper Meaning – Rather than directly answering the question, I offered an esoteric response, which clarified that the Winkelvoss brothers created nothing of value to “protect.” John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.
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 in 2007 by Oxford Univ. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is Total raised: $1.3mm. TechCrunch.
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