socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. What does MetaCloud do? Why do you imagine that''s the case?

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

In the same way that the technology community is not the same when you''re talking San Francisco versus Palo Alto versus San Jose, Southern California''s technology communities have their own neighborhoods. More than 80 percent of the IP out of those institutions gets licensed, but less than 20 percent of that goes into startups.

Pasadena 242

Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 26, 2010

Effective intellectual property (IP) protection is essential to the survival of start-up companies. Without strong IP protection, companies will fail to raise early stage funding and will be vulnerable to opportunistic and incumbent competitors. Monday, February 1, 2010 -- Patent Policy  From the Hill to the Patent Office.

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Patents IP Startup Funding 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Intellectual property (IP) is essential to the growth and survival of start-up companies. Tuesday, November 9, 2010 -- PTO's Proposed Three-Track Examination Process.

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Patents IP Startup Funding 113

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well. How’s that for duality.

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Startup SEM IP SEO 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. How did you start the business? Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I might also be concerned about taking my idea directly to a large, well funded competitor who is know for innovation. NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. False Confidence.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I might also be concerned about taking my idea directly to a large, well funded competitor who is know for innovation. NDAs or Other Protection So you decide you want to be able to share with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. False Confidence.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Green Tech Fund California, Inc. But how to overcome the risks in politics, government relationships and IP protection remains a hurdle for U.S. Friday, February 17, 2012 -- Green LAVA Meeting. will discuss opportunities for clean tech in the Chinese and India markets.

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LAVA IP Entrepreneur Funding 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). One of the partners, Greg Goldfarb, was really excited about Telesign. I was introduced to the founders.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Los Angeles-based Science37 (www.science37.com)

Technology 133

Technology Study UCLA Research 133

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We have some very good competitors--EchoSign and DocuSign are the two bigs ones, and are both venture funded--who have spent a lot of money educating the market. Our competitors have spend 3-4 years, and $20M or so doing that education, which is a great benefit to us. Daryl Bernstein: We think we've kind of hit a sweet spot.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

However, as that evolved, as a management team we did a good job going after that with our IP, and that piece went well. Jerry Fitch: California is always a bell-weather for this kind of activity. In private equity it's funded on the front end, and it grows from there. Jerry Fitch: There were several dynamics that drive it.

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Equity San Diego Startup Activity 124

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

When you're sitting at a computer with a known, registered IP, we know it is you and your particular category of images, and you can log in. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. In venture capital, there are no unilateral decisions.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

SEO 37

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"

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs. Someone who inspires others.

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302