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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute , a seed stage incubator and mentoring program that we first covered last month , is set to release a set of legal documents this afternoon that promise to protect startup founders from, as he eloquently puts it, the “atrocities of investors.” The new documents, created by Wilson Sonsini attorney Yoichiro Taku , are posted publicly on the website. They have a variety of novel rights and privileges:
Adeo Ressi Fights “Atrocities Of Investors” With New Class Of Fo
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Neuhaus Partners - Venture Capital für junge Hochtechnologie Unt
Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei in den Branchen T.I.M.E.S. (Telekommunikation, Informationstechnik, Medien, Entertainment, Security) und Mikrosystemtechnik. Darüber hinaus gehören aber auch andere Technologiebereiche wie zum Beispiel Optoelektronik zum Investitionsfokus.
Venture Capital
We're moved by ideas, and the people who believe in them passionately. But first, the facts: Founded in 1997, we have invested in more than 70 companies , with impressive returns. With over €500m from more than 20 institutional investors currently under management, we are among the most successful venture capital firms in Europe. We are proud of this track record. Yet these figures tell you very little about the relationships that have grown in all these years.Don’t blame Nathan Myhrvold for taking advantage of the culture of rampant patent litigation in this country. He is only doing what large companies with vast patent portfolios such as IBM and Microsoft do on a daily basis: use the threat of patent infringement litigation to strike lucrative patent licensing deals. Except Myhrvold, who used to be Bill Gates’ right-hand man at Microsoft during the 1990s, does it through his patent-gobbling fund, Intellectual Ventures. The fund has collected more than 20,000 patents on the cheap from universities, inventors, and bankrupt companies, which it then uses to extract hefty licensing fees from some of the biggest companies in the world. Since he started Intellectual Ventures eight years ago, he has returned $1 billion in licensing fees to investors, he tells the WSJ . Those investors include some of the same companies who are licensing his patents: Sony, Nokia, Microsoft, Intel, Google, eBay, SAP, and Nvidia.
