Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Tech may be the tool, but hospitality – making life a little easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for your customer, is the winning focus. Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well. Raise accountability by narrowing your focus and tools to improve productivity. Key people resort a victim mentality when things go wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process. Our current customers and users had a very high desire to make it available, and so we developed the company to deliver the product. Zare'' Baghdasarian: That''s the precise issue we address with our patents. You can''t do it in real time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

You can’t make any money unless you bill your customers on a timely basis, and follow-up regularly on missed payment commitments. I recommend one of the many cloud-based and low-cost tools to help, such as the Viewpost business network. An accountant may not be necessary, but you still can’t skip the tools. Corporate records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2012

Music Prodigy is changing Music Education through its patent-pending technology and proprietary teaching method that enables any aspiring musician to learn any instrument, at any level of expertise, anywhere an iOS device can reach. Check out the team in the video above and get to know the folks behind it all.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. But, what she found was that not everyone has an editor's eye, and can use those video and video tools. In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Mobilizing all the resources of localized 3D design, 3D printing, traditional manufacturing and input materials for individual custom creations with added benefits of supporting our local economy,” says Jeremy Goodwin, co-founder of SYNCFAB. More technically speaking, SYNCFAB is a technical hybrid 3D print and design solution platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Solve a painful problem for customers who have money to spend.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Startups Made Simple.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist. First Prize: $3,000 –> o_O. Second Prize: $500. Third Prize: $250. Judges Prize: $250.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2014

If you have ever written a patent application, you know its all about details, linkages, and causes vs. effects. They love talking about their business and their product, and dream of having millions of customers. Exaggeration, pipe dreaming and denial are the tools and comforts of the trade of entrepreneurism.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s not a programming tool, even though it uses a lot of big data.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. If your adVenture does not receive funding and you are unable to operate on customer revenue, then the Darwinian world of business (as described in Competing From The Fringe ) is trying very hard to tell you something – be sure to listen. Basically, everything is free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2013

If you have ever written a patent application, you know it’s all about details, linkages, and causes vs. effects. They love talking about their business and their product, and dream of having millions of customers. Exaggeration, pipe dreaming and denial are the tools and comforts of the trade of entrepreneurism. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2012

If you have ever written a patent application, you know it’s all about details, linkages, and causes vs. effects. They love talking about their business and their product, and dream of having millions of customers. Exaggeration, pipe dreaming and denial are the tools and comforts of the trade of entrepreneurism.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s enterprise customers will also have the option to leverage Quipa’s innovative data-in-transit security technology for transferring files in and out of the cloud. This allowsCapLinked to offer its customers a security option that’s both state-of-the-art and unobtrusive.”. Cutting Edge Technologies. Series A Round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. Instead of the Internet being bad, with the filtering and security tools, we made it a productive tool. It sounds like a lot of this might be aimed at financial customers? Curtis Staker: It's certainly financial customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2011

If you have ever written a patent application, you know it’s all about details, linkages, and causes vs. effects. They love talking about their business and their product, and dream of having millions of customers. Exaggeration, pipe dreaming and denial are the tools and comforts of the trade of entrepreneurism.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Now he has over 20,000 stores. Drive innovation.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Use Basic Tools – Budget, Cash Flow Forecast, and a good Accounting System. Two Basic Colors – Debt (borrow) and Equity (buy). 14 Sources of Money – From family, friends, and fools to being a public company. Typical Consequences of Being Late – Ran out of money, missed product launch window, missed project milestones.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

Brown was approached by a manufacturer, who asked if his technology could hold tools for an assembly line. Eric Golden: The first use is for holding tools for manufacturers. Most manufacturers these days have workers that have to use tools, that can weigh from six pounds to up to 30 or 40 pounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Now you can get a product built in China almost overnight with minimal up-front cost, with delayed payment based on first-customer order commitments. Wages and benefits.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Most tools in the market are focused on the operations side, and post sales--what happens downstream, so publishers can provide proper revenue recognition and billing numbers. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. How does your solution fit with the many automated tools and ad networks out there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Now he has over 20,000 stores. Drive innovation.

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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. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. How did you two connect?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Howard Schultz, who grew Starbucks to 13,000 stores by 2008, decided to step back in as CEO when the economy was killing his stores, and refocus everyone on the customer. Now he has over 17,000 stores. Drive innovation.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. However, you should seek a patent attorney when it is time to craft your patent application. Just like the phone, our remote access product was simply a tool.

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