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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

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deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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Annual IP Case Law Review

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Thursday, November 4, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents: Annual IP Case Law Review. Supreme Court which affected whether software and business methods are patentable. Join in a panel discussion of the cases that were decided and that have affected the landscape of patent law this past year.

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

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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. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. What do I do now? After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with.

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Qualcomm Buys iSkoot

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iSkoot Technologies includes substantially all of the assets of San Francisco-based iSkoot, a developer of social networking and Skype-compatible voice-over-IP software for mobile phones. Tags: qualcomm iskoot merger acquisition mobile software skype social networking. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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