{"id":10374,"date":"2013-06-11T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T03:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2013-06-11T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T04:06:30","slug":"vcs-get-their-pick-of-hungry-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10374","title":{"rendered":"VCs Get Their Pick Of Hungry Start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But there is a dark side because VC\u2019s often only make safe bets, backing companies which can show they have enough valuable intellectual property (IP) to reassure the funders that they can salvage a large part of their money through IP asset-stripping, if the business doesn\u2019t thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the slogan for the session should have been: \u201cNo IP, no VC\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweekeurope.co.uk\/comment\/demo-europe-russia-vc-start-up-118681\">Demo Europe: VCs Get Their Pick Of Hungry Start-ups<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there is a dark side because VC\u2019s often only make safe bets, backing companies which can show they have enough valuable intellectual property (IP) to reassure the funders that they can salvage a large part of their money through &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34,874,308],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patents","tag-software-patents","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}