InfoChachkie
AUGUST 10, 2010
Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. 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?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 21, 2013
So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. But you do need to be sure your company doesn’t just become the internal R&D department for a large corporation. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy.
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Berkonomics
APRIL 25, 2019
Then think of all the things you do to surround that core with people and assets that complete your company and allow you to release your product or perform your service. Which of your IP assets is your core? These are new times, enhanced by our global ability to find resources anywhere on earth to complement the core of our business.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. Ownership Matters At Upfront we focus our energy on fewer companies where we take meaningful ownership and we continue to invest throughout the lifecycle of the company.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
IP Confusion – Questionable ownership of key intellectual property, including non-exclusive licenses, potential infringement of a third party’s technology and/or inappropriate use of open-source tools. As such, make it easy for investors to unequivocally evaluate the veracity of your venture's IP.
InfoChachkie
MAY 19, 2011
As noted in parts I and II of this series, agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) can be alluring and potentially fatal. This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.
Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Fifteen out of seventeen business sectors each store more data per company than the entire Library of Congress. You may not be aware of all the data your company stores, or whether it is usable at the atomic level – by source location or name or IP address. Then decide whether there is unmined gold in those undiscovered places.
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