SoCal Tech Calendar
SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009 -- Intellectual Property and Its Impact on Entrepreneurship. Tom O'Toole and Brandon Villery will cover issues on licensing, due diligence, NDA, different types of IP (trade secret, patent, trademark, copyright), etc. IEEE San Fernando Valley Section and Entrepreneurs Consortium of Southern California.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 16, 2012
.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.
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SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. You could just outspend. I Be specific. It's a great talk.
socalTECH
APRIL 28, 2010
We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. How long has Bccthis been around?
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2011
In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog. The average total fees for obtaining a patent are now way up to $38,000.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
Mark Suster: First of all, the good news, is GRP has a $200 million fund, which we've only done three investments on. We're really excited about 2009. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. We're in a unique position, because we just got our fund last year.
socalTECH
MARCH 15, 2013
Nils Forsblom is not new to the startup world -- in fact, his last startup, Fruugo, raised an astounding $48M in funding, and became one of the most heralded-- and controversial --startups in Finland. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. So you're making multiple applications?
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