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.

IP 256

IP Patents Company Companies 256

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). They had twelve people when I took over at FrontBridge, which was then an interesting idea.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible. The second thing we look at is the quality of the idea.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

What's the idea behind Quub? I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 So, I pulled up the UC Irvine faculty list, and started calling professors.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Actually, handling short URIs in your error handler is a pretty good idea when you suffer from a mainstream CMS. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. 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" Sad but true.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41