Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

On the other hand, if you intend to patent an idea, you need a signed confidentiality agreement from everyone knowing details, or you will legally lose patent rights. Prior to patent application. As I mentioned earlier, you should never disclose details of a potential patent to anyone without getting a signed and dated NDA.

Ideas 92

Ideas Demand Patents Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Here are the major elements of the best product plans: Market requirements section. Executives, marketing & sales, financial projections, and funding.

Product 112

Product Summary Activity Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

In addition to personal focus, I find that the best entrepreneurs build and demand a culture of focus and excellence in their team, their investors, and even their advisors. It clearly takes focus to create and file a patent, but it will give you a tremendous advantage over “me too” competitors.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Startup Patents Resource 126

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

This approach, popularly known as glocalization , means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Remember when the Chevy Nova required a rename, once Chevrolet realized that Nova meant "no go" in the Spanish market (not a great name for a car).

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106

Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Second: Market risk. . Email readers, continue here…] Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service?

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution. Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Choose a business model that will win in the market. Pay attention to the market.

Tips 80

Tips Startup Satisfaction Ideas 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Remember when the Chevy Nova required a rename, once Chevrolet realized that Nova meant "no go" in the Spanish market (not a great name for a car).

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Offshore 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Quantify the market opportunity in business terms. For example, “Nielsen projects that the market for smart phones will double every year for the next five years.” Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Here are the major elements of the best product plans: Market requirements section. Executives, marketing & sales, financial projections, and funding.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

I recommend that you look for new or emerging opportunities in new markets. You need intellectual property , such as a patent, trade secret, or process expertise that will be a barrier that you can defend. Successful businesses are built around solutions that work, have a market, and are scalable.

Social Media 105

Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

The simple solution I recommend to inventors is to find a partner who can focus on business and marketing, while you focus on technology. Understanding what drives customers to buy, in different market segments and cultures, is usually just as challenging as creating and combining technology to deliver function.

Startup 124

Startup Entrepreneur Custom Customer 124

Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Second: Market risk. Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? And fifth: Competitive risk.

Outsource Development 200

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Remember when the Chevy Nova required a rename, once Chevrolet realized that Nova meant "no go" in the Spanish market (not a great name for a car).

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Patents Offshore Startup 103

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets. Was there consumer demand? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? No brainer. Could we produce this at cost?

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Get an NDA before detailed patent disclosures. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, until after a non-disclosure or other contract has been signed. Some entrepreneurs avoid the patent process, since patent details become public once a patent is issued.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Be wary of crafty shysters who will flood your mailbox with official-looking mail offering to help for a fee, or demanding fees you forgot to pay. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA).

Ideas 136

Ideas Entrepreneur Mentor Resource 136

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Any startup with no patents, trade secrets, or other secret sauce is very high risk today. Make sure your solution is defensible and unique.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

That means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Remember when the Chevy Nova required a rename, once Chevrolet realized that Nova meant "no go" in the Spanish market (not a great name for a car). with demands for new products and services.

Startup 89

Startup Patents Offshore Demand 89

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Create a market you can’t supply and support. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Use the rule of “plan early, quote late, and ship early,” to be a hero rather than a zero.

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

Judges, juries, defense, and prosecuters are now expecting and demanding video be produced in the courtroom. That's a bridge to our Series A, which we'll be using for scaling up sales and marketing. How big of a market is there for all of this? which is a 2 billion market opportunity. It's really a big problem out there.

Pasadena Angels 100

Pasadena Angels Pasadena Technical Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com).

Southern California 133

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

This almost always starts at the top, based on a founder’s dream and passion, without the proper homework on sizing the market, or assessing product realities. 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.

Startup 113

Startup Examples Coach Metrics 113

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. portfolio management - U.S.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear. The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid.

Southern California 100

Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. Need office or Tech Space? Think Glendale. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California IP 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

Ida was well positioned to expand her market from upscale clients purchasing custom dresses to mass market consumers. In 1917, Mary Phelps Jacobs was granted patent 1,115,674 , which states, “This invention relates to improvements in brassieres.” (sic). As such, it had no impact on the fashion market. Celebrity Sells.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Design Custom Customer 100

socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. portfolio management - U.S.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. portfolio management - U.S.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com).

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. 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.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Need office or Tech Space?

Southern California 140

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

Create a market you can’t supply and support. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Use the rule of “plan early, quote late, and ship early,” to be a hero rather than a zero.

Startup 125

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 125

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. portfolio management - U.S.

Advertising 113

Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. The topic for conversation will be how technology has changed the political landscape and how the lessons learned impact strategy, marketing, and communications in all industries.

Orange County 113

Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Here are the major elements of the best product plans: Market requirements section. Executives, marketing & sales, financial projections, and funding.

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101