TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At M13, Barber will be working to recruit entrepreneurs to work collaboratively on developing startup consumer businesses that align with the strategic interests of M13’s corporate partners, like Procter & Gamble. Anna Barber, partner, M13. Image Credit: Raif Strathmann.

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Startup Incubator Los Angeles IP 178

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs are inherently risk takers.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Pasadena-based OnGreen , the online marketplace for green and clean technology businesses, said today that it has launched a new, patent marketplace focused on allowing users to license or sell their intellectual property (IP). According to OnGreen, the new marketplace will provide additional funding avenues for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs play to win and they take losing seriously.

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Competition Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners 296

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs.

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Most of the time the advice you are looking for is from a successful entrepreneurs who might be so busy to be reached. The starup offers online entrepreneurial networking opportunities by introducing professionals with expertise (Advisors) to those seeking business advice (Entrepreneurs). Which startups or entrepreneurs have signed up?

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Startup Paramount Social Media 89

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

I “second the message” that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.” Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even great entrepreneurs are amazed at how fast this can lead to a non-recoverable situation. Employees stop innovating.

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Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Need office or Tech Space?

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

IEEE San Fernando Valley Section and Entrepreneurs Consortium of Southern California. Tom O'Toole and Brandon Villery will cover issues on licensing, due diligence, NDA, different types of IP (trade secret, patent, trademark, copyright), etc. They will emphasize IP licensing and IP licensing issues of importance to entrepreneurs.

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San Fernando Technical Review IP Southern California 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Need office or Tech Space?

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

I second the message that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.” Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even great entrepreneurs are amazed at how fast this can lead to a non-recoverable situation. Employees stop innovating.

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Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Need office or Tech Space?

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. They include: Sponsors.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. They include: Sponsors.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. They include: Sponsors.

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. What do you look for in entrepreneurs? What was the hardest part of getting Shift off the ground, when you were an entrepreneur? Minnie Ingersoll: So much was hard.

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Southern California Startup Layoffs Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. They include: Sponsors.

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Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. Their goal is to partner in really unique ways with entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors, to create businesses and brands in new categories for P&G. We're here as a support ecosystem, to help founders build their companies.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Los Angeles Help 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Need office or Tech Space?

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Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Mountain View-based Google appears to be taking a clue from San Diego entrepreneur Michael Robertson, the former founder of MP3.com, Gizmo5, which offered free, SIP-based voice-over-IP phone calling services, was acquired by Google in November of last year. com, and has proposed a "digital locker" for online music.

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Google IP San Diego Report 140

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. They include: Sponsors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Dedicated to our Clients.

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SoCalTech Orange County Southern California IP 100

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

socalTECH

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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Help IP Content Google 133

Both Sides of the Table

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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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

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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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

But how to overcome the risks in politics, government relationships and IP protection remains a hurdle for U.S. A former Big 6 consultant with an MBA, Marty Metro, Founder and CEO, has become a prolific eco-entrepreneur, successfully balancing the need for financial returns with a passion for environmental and social responsibility.

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LAVA IP Entrepreneur Funding 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

DeFevere is active in serving the local technology community, is an angel investor, and also helps run one of the longest running private technology networking groups in the Los Angeles area for venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and service providers. Identify the collective IP to commercialize. Thou shalt weave a story.

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IP Research Los Angeles Activity 174

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2012

I’m fond of saying that I look for entrepreneurs that have a chip on their shoulder. Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved. I met an entrepreneur. Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP. Every great entrepreneur has been turned down dozens of times.

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Startup Entrepreneur IP Venture Capital 336

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 1, 2009

They will join those representing the investment community and entrepreneurs on a panel discussion about 'Common mistakes entrepreneurs make regarding intellectual property'. The workshop will include case studies on how these subjects are utilized to protect actual products or services.

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