Competition Course IP Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 29, 2010
Competitiveness - One attribute that I believe most VCs look for in entrepreneurs is competitiveness. If you stumble on to a really good idea believe me it will get competitive really quickly. I know that people who aren’t competitive always find competitive people slightly distasteful. I had to say it.
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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InfoChachkie
MAY 19, 2011
Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.) If you want to be a YouTube MCN producer the problem is compounded by the fact that of course the talent needs to make money as well. Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners.
socalTECH
JANUARY 14, 2011
We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. But make it competitive. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding.
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