Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

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AUGUST 17, 2009

To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

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MAY 10, 2015

This also happens out of “startup weekends” where it’s unclear who contributed to the IP and where many people don’t continue with the idea beyond the first 30 days. If you think Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Search, AirBNB, etc are totally “novel” ideas you’re kidding yourself.

Startup 150

Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

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APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. You own the IP you create.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

The truth about Helsinki, is it really is the mobile games capital of the world. We thought that, if we could marry what is happening in Helsinki in mobile games, with what we can do here in marketing and business development in the entertainment capital of the world, we''d have a pretty good combination to address this space.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Mobile Content IP 100

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

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MAY 5, 2011

When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! Who can get help get access to their capital?

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Nate Williams: I joined from Google three months ago, after my last company, 4Home, was purchased by Motorola. We''ve already got 150 employees and $31 million in venture capital, so we''re pretty established. That''s what we''re focused on now, using that capital to grow out the company and accelerate our rollout with customers.

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Startup Platform Networking Services 202

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APRIL 27, 2010

My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I never built Google. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital? million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to Identify the Bot You Want to Block Before you can block a bot, you will need to know at least one of two things: the IP address where the bot is coming from or the"User Agent string" that the bot is using. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string. htaccess ".

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IP PHP Web RSS 38

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. We discuss Googles plan to pay more to Verizon in order to be on a higher speed connection and get its mobile content to users faster.

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Via a JS interface called by the client (like Google Analytics) or server-side within your methods? Block username.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29