Equity IP Product Sales 
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Since I am a proponent of using equity as a tool and he is so much opposed, this week it is his turn to make the case. These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. Do I understand the royalty replaces the need for equity investors ?
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Since I am a proponent of using equity as a tool and he is so much opposed, this week it is his turn to make the case. These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. Do I understand the royalty replaces the need for equity investors ?
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. Over the past 2.5 Why does that matter?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 25, 2011
There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
He wants a chance at changing life’s circumstances with building equity value that might free him and his family from the rat-race of 529 accounts, property taxes, summer-school tuitions and even spending some cash on aging parents. There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. He still has the dream.
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash. Create a bottom-up financial forecast that uses your detailed budget and sales projections as the starting point. Protect yourself by clearly outlining confidentiality, termination provisions, and IP ownership in employee contracts and hiring documentation.
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