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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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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

Questions of IP. In general, the way it works is that individual inventors are named as inventors on the patents, and then the IP would be licensed back by spin-off companies to further develop the technology, according to Monti. The hospital itself has had two patents issued to it. “We The Program. “My

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

socalTECH

It''s a place where people can submit their ideas and patents, and we provide a platform for them to try to find entrepreneurs who would like to work on those patents together with us an the crowd. Experts then take that preselected idea, and decide which ones we''ll go to work actively on. How do entrepreneurs get involved?

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

How long have you been active in Los Angeles? They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

socalTECH

3 very active, 3 have been deployed. Those are the three active areas, and we have several customers and have made lots of headway there. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. Who are your core customers? The third one is actually live sports.

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