Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Now you can match a big company with worldwide reach for a few thousand dollars. Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

" Investors want to buy into an entrepreneur with a startup that can provide evidence of an ability to double customer productivity, at half the cost, with patented technology. Patents or other intellectual property are a real competitive advantage for a startup, but first to market and working harder are not sustainable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Not every international market matters, but some are larger than life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Here are the most common elevator pitch missteps I see often as an angel investor and advisor to startups, with some quick advice on how to address each: Insist on leading with the story of the company. For example, “Unlike all the other LCD providers, our patented high intensity light has no blue tint or glare that looks unnatural.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Taking action to file even a provisional patent shows you have the conviction and skill to execute while others have no barrier to entry. Investors invest in people who take action rather than find the excuses that patents are not defensible, cost money or may be done later. Dig deeper than Wikipedia for facts on key competitors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Theyre like companies in the US like and ATT or Verizon, or an Orange in France, or others in Poland and Russia and other countries. Whats the relationship of this company to Gary Winnick?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2015

Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the colorful autobiography. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Lead with facts, but skip the details.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two. That's areas like business development, forming the company, in marketing and sales. The video and picture are from our service.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

Another leading native advertising provider is Nativo , a company that has received a lot of media attention since it first launched. In June 2015, the platform managed to raise some $20 million in Venture Capital (VC) funding. patent, making its offering totally unique to both advertisers and audiences alike.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2013

Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the colorful autobiography. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Lead with facts, but skip the details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.” First, no investor is interested in a company that is only looking to get 1% of a market. Usually the reason the big companies are no threat is that the market is too small. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies is a very difficult task.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum, a solution without a company will be seen as a hobby. Entrepreneurs who have no patents, trade secrets or trademarks are usually deemed non-fundable and non-competitive. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/20/2015. Demonstrate a concentrated focus on customers early on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the colorful autobiography. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Lead with facts, but skip the details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2011

Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the colorful autobiography. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Lead with facts, but skip the details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the colorful autobiography. According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Lead with facts, but skip the details.

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