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IP Protection Strategies For Start-Ups

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Thursday, February 14, 2019 -- TCVN Legal Program #2: IP Protection Strategies For Start-Ups. TCVN now features four educational tracks in four specific areas.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

The data set contained more than 70,000 orders dating between September 2015 and November 2019, and included customer names and email addresses, home addresses and order details. Each record also had the user’s IP address of the device they used to place the order.

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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

TechCrunch LA

. “We’re starting with a blank sheet of paper and building teams in partnership with entrepreneurs and in partnership with corporate partners who will bring their perspective and their IP. The starting gun for M13’s Launchpad program was in 2019 and the program currently has managed to spin up three startups.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” I talked to a couple of friends of mine who are late-stage growth investors and they basically told me, “we’re just not taking any meetings with companies who raised their last growth round in 2021 because we know there is still a mismatch of expectations.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

TechCrunch LA

“ In 2019 and 2020 we’re going to see a lot of these… we’re going to see a lot of people putting out a lot of stuff.” “We understand how much money you can make from the IP. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. .”