Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Offshore 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Marketing 104

Marketing Startup Patents Offshore 104

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. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Development schedule and checkpoints.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

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

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. and trademarks.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. Elon Musk mitigated this by making his battery patents free to all. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters. Choose a business model that will win in the market.

Tips 80

Tips Startup Satisfaction Ideas 80

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Patents Offshore Startup 103

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

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Startup 89

Startup Patents Offshore Demand 89

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. For the first time, in a long time, traffic deaths and crashes are rising, due to drunk and drugged driving.

Pasadena Angels 100

Pasadena Angels Pasadena Technical Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. While Senior Director of Corporate Development & Acquisitions at Salesforce.com, he grew the B2B sales division to $100M. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

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. All are separate.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

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. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Development schedule and checkpoints.

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO. Pre-existing intellectual property.

Startup 101

Startup Entrepreneur Equity CTO Hire 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Technical Review Equity 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

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 104

Ideas Mentor Resource Entrepreneur 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry. Investors look for sales at full price, to people you don’t know, to validate demand, price, and margin. Show an aggressive marketing and sales plan. Be able to differentiate your offering from competitors.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Ideas Pricing Custom 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

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. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Development schedule and checkpoints.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

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 107

Ideas Mentor Entrepreneur Resource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong.

Technical Review 95

Technical Review Startup Equity Entrepreneur 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO. Pre-existing intellectual property.

Equity 91

Equity Startup CTO Hire CTO Coach 91

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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 56

Ideas Mentor Resource Product 56

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Equity 102

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Thus, demand “Powered By” branding status to ensure that end-users will be exposed to your brand and alerted to the fact that your technology is a significant component of the BDC’s solution. If there is not a valid business reason for granting one-sided terms, reject the language on the grounds that it is patently unfair.

Outsource Development 170

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Thus, demand “Powered By” branding status to ensure that end-users will be exposed to your brand and alerted to the fact that your technology is a significant component of the BDC’s solution. If there is not a valid business reason for granting one-sided terms, reject the language on the grounds that it is patently unfair.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We started with some fundamental assumptions -- it shouldn't demand a Sun Sparc CPU, it should be able to run on an off-the-shelf server, it needed to be scalable, and it should have no inherent gotchas that would limit it in any way to less than millions of users and tens of millions of calls per day.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40