Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding.

Venture Capital 212

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

Patent Office for Trademarks. If you are still unsure of yourself, you should know that there are many dedicated firms, like Igor and A Hundred Monkeys , that can relieve you of $1 million of your hard-earned funds to come up with just the right appellation. Favor common suffixes. com” or the standard suffix for your country.

Startup 104

Startup Google Customer Custom 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Patent Office for Trademarks. If you are still unsure of yourself, you should know that there are many dedicated firms, like Igor and A Hundred Monkeys , that can relieve you of $1 million of your hard-earned funds to come up with just the right appellation. Favor common suffixes. com” or the standard suffix for your country.

Company 108

Company Companies Google Customer 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Patent Office for Trademarks. If you are still unsure of yourself, you should know that there are many dedicated firms, like Igor and A Hundred Monkeys , that can relieve you of $1M of your hard-earned funds to come up with just the right appellation. Favor common suffixes. com” or the standard suffix for your country. Marty Zwilling.

Company 92

Company Companies Google Customer 92

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Dipanshu Sharpa: My third company raised a ton of money from venture funds--$26M--and I what I didn't want to do is to raise a lot of money and have lots of people. Anders and I own a multitude of patents at Nokia--I have 11 at Nokia--and we were inventing technology all the time. The awareness of the company took off.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

And honestly it was the single biggest roadblock at Upfront when we raised out fourth fund in 2011. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?” He led our investment in 6sensor Labs , which has patented techniques for screening food for gluten and peanut allergens.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Artificial Inteligence Invest Funding 150

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

My fund was an early investor in Overture. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50