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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. How Does the Industry Really Work? So it’s about 20%.

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CyberFlow Analytics Raises $2M For Cyber Security Efforts

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San Diego-based CyberFlow Analytics has raised $2M in a seed round of funding, to go towards its software for protecting corporate IP from corporate espionage and malware. The firm said the seed round of funding came from Toshiba America Electronics Components. READ MORE>>.

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Brainbase Gets $3M For IP Licensing

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Los Angeles-based Brainbase , a developer of intellectual property licensing software, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said today. The round was led by Struck Capital, and also included Tectonic Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Sterling Road, and Watertower Ventures.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. She had raised seed funds from a who’s who list of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cuban, Troy Carter and so on. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Catalog Collects $1.5M For AI Software For Visual Artists

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in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. The startup--led by Patrick Ip--develops software to automate the creation of custom visual content for brands. READ MORE>>.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly Over the past 2.5 particularly as you achieve scale.