Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Rather than rely only on linear thinking, the best entrepreneurs are always looking to offer in parallel a more dramatic new alternative.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. Make sure you own your IP. But for the sake of my example – say 20%. Register a company. Assemble a team.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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JULY 16, 2013

More than 80 percent of the IP out of those institutions gets licensed, but less than 20 percent of that goes into startups. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation. more) READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Jennifer Monti, MD, a cardiologist and entrepreneur, is the director of Maine Medical Center’s new ‘Innovation Cohort’. Questions of IP. I encourage people to even try and get to the relevant IP questions—that would be a sign of progress and success.”. It is also less expensive to do research here.”. The Program.

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APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. We also have a Chinese partnership with Songcheng, where we will be building theme park-scale attractions, using Chinese IP, for their parks. We're building attractions that are VR-enabled. In the U.S.,

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

A good example of that is Hero Cat, which blew up in two days to million and millions of views. It really started, because John is a clip show producer, and realized that the value was in the ownership of the IP. Lee Essner: I was at Idealab as an entrepreneur in residence. How did this go from content on a channel to a company?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

For example, my dog eats two cans of dog food a day, if there are ten cans in the pantry, that means five days and he's out. What makes us unique is we've filed a lot of IP on these timed, repetitive searches, and I think that's what is going to give us a unique value proposition. That's what we focus on. Are you funded yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

If you had previously raised $1 million in notes on my example above – is it $8 million pre-money so that my $2 million investment gets added to the note ($1m) for a post-money valuation of $11 million? What I’ve found over the years is that this forces way more clarity on the entrepreneurs at fund raising time. No problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The most popular platform examples are still a couple of the earliest, Kickstarter and Indiegogo , but you can find a comparison of many others online. While all this is definitely a boon to entrepreneurs, it does come with its own set of challenges. Keep all IP details close to the vest. How can you go wrong?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Practice your message. Publicists always tell you to stick to the crafted message, which was probably wrong anyway.

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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. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. 0:28:00) & (0:31:27).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. For example, look at the following graph.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Practice your message. Publicists always tell you to stick to the crafted message, which was probably wrong anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. Tags: entrepreneur startup business. Practice your message. In a startup, you are the brand. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Food is the perfect example. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. Finally, what's been your biggest lesson as an entrepreneur so far?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed. This leads to the problem of “herding cats&# for entrepreneurs raising angel money. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1. Violent agreement.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Dawn Newton: As an example, when you go to Google.com, it is actually routing to an IP address. Behind the scenes, DNS technology is translating that Url to an IP address, so you don't have to worry about it. What Justin figured out, was that same, DNS technology can be used to route to blockchain wallet addresses.

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JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build. They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. We looked at the IP and realized it was highly differentiated / hard to replicate.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Can you maybe give a concrete example of that? For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article. With things, for example, a camera or electronics, you can check the rating on Amazon.com. That's everything in the direct noun space.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Entrepreneurs who are confident yet humble, are rare and thus especially charming. “Learn from the mistakes of others.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. Most corporate attorneys can give you general guidance with respect to securing your Intellectual Property (IP) rights, especially with respect to trademarks, copyrights and other non-patent-related items. Save money on your office furniture, not on your IP lawyer.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

For example, you might be driving home, and allow your digital world to align with the real world, so if you're driving to let people know you can't take a phone call because your in the car, and to do that automatically. Tags: entrepreneur startup networking social twitter irvine patterson ruan george quub itnerview.

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MAY 2, 2015

I’d like to give you some actual examples and also talk about the role they play. It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? Legal threats from other IP holders? I will inevitably leave some of our great CFOs out – I apologize. They can help you with pricing.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. I've been an entrepreneur for many years. Tags: interview daryl bernstein rightsignature electronic signature startup entrepreneur. They couldn't produce the original contract.

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APRIL 27, 2010

&#. Think about me as an example. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I didn’t make retirement money when I sold my first company. Mix that into your decision-making pot at the time you make the leap.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

We've developed a very advanced, voice-over-IP telephony network, which allows outside travel agents to do all of our customer service on commissions, which keeps our fixed costs down, and allows us to scale to thousands of inquiries a day. Tags: tompkins travel interview entrepreneur adventurelink services kelly adventure.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Make sense?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

From investments and business, Robin Kaminsky , Entrepreneur in Residence at Rustin Canyon Partners, and former EVP of Publishing at Activision. Concurrently, Scot also sees an overall pullback on original IP’s. Robin brings up a compelling example to frame this discussion. ” Diving Into Psychology.

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