IP Protection Strategies For Start-Ups
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FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019 -- TCVN Legal Program #2: IP Protection Strategies For Start-Ups. TCVN now features four educational tracks in four specific areas.
USC Viterbi Startup Garage Deadline
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 29, 2021
Friday, April 2, 2021 -- USC Viterbi Startup Garage Deadline. USC Viterbi Startup Garage (VSG) is hosting an open call for early-stage technology startups for their Spring Cohort kicking off late-April. Any IP developed by the teams is theirs to keep! For more information visit the VSG Webpage or contact vsg@usc.edu.
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FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Startups Made Simple. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).
How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. Many people start companies arse backwards. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.
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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures
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JUNE 21, 2019
What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? Minnie Ingersoll: I grew up here in Southern California, in Pasadena, and have been in the Bay Area for a number of years, and just became a new partner at TenOneTen Ventures. TenOneTen Ventures is an early stage, seed investor here in Southern California.
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OCTOBER 30, 2009
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DECEMBER 11, 2009
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Startups Made Simple.
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JUNE 19, 2009
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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.
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JUNE 26, 2009
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JUNE 5, 2009
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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.
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APRIL 24, 2009
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AUGUST 7, 2009
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MAY 22, 2009
Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Startups Made Simple. They include: Sponsors.
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JULY 24, 2009
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SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. 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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NOVEMBER 17, 2009
A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Startups Made Simple. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.
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113 How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email.
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157 SPACES' Shiraz Akmal On Making VR A Real Life Experience
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JULY 18, 2018
We caught up with Shiraz to learn more about the company's origins from within Dreamworks Animation, and what it's hoping to bring to a location near you soon. We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. About two and a half years ago, we spun out of Dreamworks.
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How Savvy Companies Leverage Brand, Technology and IP Licensing to Leap Ahead of The Competition
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 -- How Savvy Companies Leverage Brand, Technology and IP Licensing to Leap Ahead of The Competition. See [link] (more).
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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups
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JULY 13, 2011
For example: Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack Customer Development for Web Startups How To Get Your First 1,000 Users Similarly, when you look at IP / Intellectual Property for Startups, it's dominated by Jill Hubbard Bowman 's wonderful content.
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175 Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena
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. We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity.
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242 Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI
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. It allows us to start peeling the onion. How did you start the business?
Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud
socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
However, Metacloud (www.metacloud.com), a startup providing private cloud services, is looking to change the equation and make it much easier for companies to deploy their own private clouds. We think those four dimensions matter because you can sort of mix and match those, and end up with interesting business models.
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Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2013
TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.
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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"
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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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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.
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Patent Policy ?? From the Hill to the Patent Office
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.
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100 How Innovative Digital Advertising Startups are Changing the $150 Billion Advertising Market
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 12, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009 -- OCTANe Innovation Series How Innovative Digital Advertising Startups are Changing the $150 Billion Advertising Market. Orange County is home to a number of innovative startups that are shaking up the established advertising industry. See [link] (more).
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Science37: Using Technology To Enable Remote, Clinical Trials, with Belinda Tan
socalTECH
MAY 8, 2017
We caught up with co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Belinda Tan to learn more about the company. One of the areas where people are starting to look at innovation, is using technology to make trials more accessible to patients. The main problem which we found with trials being so slow, is not being able to recruit patients.
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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals
socalTECH
OCTOBER 15, 2015
To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally.
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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign
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). To learn more, we caught up with Steve. Every other hand goes down, and ours stays up.
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238 Interview with Vic Alston, Ixia
socalTECH
JULY 9, 2012
What goes into the thought processes of companies when they're acquiring startups and other firms? Ixia is long past the startup phase, having over the years grown to become a major force in the network testing equipment, and as a publicly traded firm has been in acquisition mode recently.
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Interview with Yan Hui, AirHop
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
One of the largest areas of Southern California's technology base is in the wireless and communications market. To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks.
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Internap | Faith in LA Tech Brings the Green
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 21, 2013
With new Startups popping up almost daily and the vast amount of Co-Working Spaces becoming ever so increasingly available, the foundation to sustain all the free-flowing wealth of data needs to improve. In addition to size, Internap thought ahead and loaded up on the power.
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SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. He was raised and educated in London.
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Interview with Jerry Fitch, Teridian Semiconductor
socalTECH
APRIL 22, 2010
We talked to the six dominant meter manufacturers, to really understand what they wanted, and came up with the first generation of our parts in 2004, almost concurrently to when we bought the business. Two years ago, we also started seeing interest in energy measurement for devices. there's a decent amount of theft of electricity.
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124 The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
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. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Do this for a couple weeks!
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Interview with Daryl Bernstein, RightSignature
socalTECH
MAY 18, 2009
The system also does the sometime annoying job of tracking down parties, and follows up automatically via email, and finds people where they are. All of this legistlation sets up some guidelines for what those online agreements need to do to meet standards. It's a big step forward over the FAX. and the E.U.,
Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2010
Let's start with the products. Instead of remembering a password, each time you try to log in an image grid comes up--and image shield, as we call it. 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. What does Confident Technologies do?
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SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
Im just saying this so that youdont get your hopes too high about what you can actually achieve. How to Identify the Bot You Want to Block Before you can block a bot, you will need to know at least one of two things: the IP address where the bot is coming from or the"User Agent string" that the bot is using. They look like "127.0.0.1".
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