Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. A strategic partnership, negotiated with a win-win attitude, can accomplish growth faster and cheaper than either could do alone. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution.

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Partner Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete 434

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

And a record-breaking $7 billion was invested through venture capitalists and strategic investors in private gaming companies during the first half with 11 large rounds that exceeded $100 million. In order for gaming companies to create, distribute and monetise their content, they require solid tools and infrastructure.

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Forecast IP Mobile Acquisition 190

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. A strategic partnership, negotiated with a win-win attitude, can accomplish growth faster and cheaper than either could do alone. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution.

Non-disclosure Agreement 257

Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 257

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 If a VC prices a flat or down round it means that management teams are often taking too much dilution. Strategics (ie industry investors vs. VCs). This isn’t true of all strategics but it is true for many of them?—?particularly

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Valuation Post-Money Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder 324

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Jim was really hot on this space.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners. In addition to Intel Capital, investors include Pitango Venture Capital , Battery Ventures , and strategic investors.

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Israel Flash Venture Capital Acquisition 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces.

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