Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Here is where having Marc Berte and a team out of MIT who have designed systems like this for years gave one confidence we could do something others couldn’t copy and at price points that could make us market leaders over night. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The obvious starting point is the cross-pollination of ideas and talent. So when Tim floated the idea of chipping in a small amount to our fund I was immediately excited at this new relationship.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Thomas said it was partially the lifestyle, but mostly that he had a lot of ideas but limited execution. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea. 0:18:52).

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2014

Non-Disclosure Agreements, or NDAs, are legal contracts designed to protect confidential information. Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. That said, NDAs should never take the place of solid IP protection. The Benefits.

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IP Patents Entrepreneur Content 80

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Almost every idea worthy of funding has 5 amazing teams trying to do the same thing and execution and team determines the winners. These are artifacts of a sales process designed to get you back in front of the VC and have further engagement. Compelling. Visually stunning (in this day and age this is becoming a sine qua non ).

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. Internet scale.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

looks to keep gamers on their toes with fast combat and new level designs. After a couple of (losing) rounds, the game improved upon level design and the fighting mechanics. The design is epic in short. It looks like Nintendo has a new IP up its sleeve. The second level gave a bit more into the creative ideas in the game.

IP 77

IP Startup Design Training 77

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

We've got four generation of parts in the market, with three in production, and the fourth sampling--with a fifth in design. Today, they're designing into the larger appliances smart grid programs, and a number of server manufacturers are starting to design in and introduce energy measurement into their devices as well.

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Equity San Diego Startup Activity 124

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

What's the idea behind Quub? Don Patterson: It took a long time to converge on what we were actually doing, and we started on a path of developing stuff, working with interaction designers, and forcing ourselves to identify what service we were really trying to provide. George, can you talk more about your priof startup experience?

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Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. In it, I cover some more general philosophical ideas about how to approach what to measure and what not to measure. Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. Actually, handling short URIs in your error handler is a pretty good idea when you suffer from a mainstream CMS. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0

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SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com" Sad but true.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41