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Monetizing Innovation

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Monetizing Innovation. How 'IP Capitalists' are beating Venture Capitalists in Innovative Companies? Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12B to get access to their 17,000 patents. Nortel sold its 6000 patents for $4.5B Even IBM (the #1 in US Patents) sold over 1000 of its patents recently.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

Tech Zulu Event

He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Southern California and his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he was a Deutschman Venture Fellow. in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. He has served on advisory committees for Microsoft, IBM, Novell, and Cisco.