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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog. The average total fees for obtaining a patent are now way up to $38,000.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Because we want to get into production, marketing, and sales, right now we're listing on Fundable.com. I was doing that until 1995. Investors are a lot more skeptical, and a lot more risk adverse.

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3D Printing Redux: How Idealab's New Matter Wants To Bring 3D To The Masses

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3D printing is all the rage in the maker and do-it-yourself hobbyist market, but how do you truly take 3D printing to the mass market? What''s unique about the MOD-t, is we have a patent pending motion system for two of our 3 axis of motion. Talk about what New Matter is working on?

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. Whats your background, and how did you get into this? Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. I have a Ph.D.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. It's a great talk.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

socalTECH

We filed for a patent in 2000, but in 2001, when we filed for the final patent, the market tanked. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent. We can also grow this moel beyond sports, into the stock market, into entertainment, anywhere feeds are quantifiable and reasonable.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. C can you talk about how you ended up at Confident Technologies? We talked about CAPTCHA, and everyone has to have that on their web site.