Discussion:
1: Introduction
2: About Mason Wells - Dan
Broderick
3: About Tech Ranch
Gary Bloomer
4: Broderick: Role of intellectual
property in investing
5: Broderick: Investment
risk and intellectual property
6: Bloomer: Role of intellectual
property and investing
7: Costs of moving from disclosure
to business concept
8: The IP value equation
9: Avoiding "ego patents"
10: IP milestones
11: Milestone markers
12: "Step forward-look
back" strategies
13: Walking around money
14: IP investment metrics:
scalability
15: IP investment metrics:
management
16: Boards of directors
17: IP investment metrics:
ROI
18: IP investment metrics:
comparables
19: "Go-No Go"
decision points
20: Pre-money value: the
number on the paper
21: Negotiating valuation
22: Looking ahead |