Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

For example, “I have patented a new LCD with double the intensity at half the cost, already proven locally, and I just need resources to scale for this market.” For example, “Unlike all the other LCD providers, our patented high intensity light has no blue tint or glare that looks unnatural.” Build up for the punch line at the end.

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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. It’s always smart to take the high road.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2015

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. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

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. Indeed, the team claim that Nativo’s programmatic platform boosts native ad performance by up to 300%. Sta Media actually boasts a U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2013

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. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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. Register some intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry. Demonstrate a concentrated focus on customers early on.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We were a big company with licensing and so forth, and in 2015 we sold the company to NeuLion, a global streaming company whose customers included the NBA, NFL, Rogers, Univision, and so forth. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. I have a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.” That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. At best we can count on it taking many years to catch on, just like other disruptive technologies before you. Entrepreneurs who utter this line are kidding themselves.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: That funding round, which was a preferred seed equity round, took place in the summer of 2015, and there was $785,000 in the round. Barry Lieberman: That's our patent pending, proprietary secret sauce which we've built, which is the back end of the Beatshare's technology. The video and picture are from our service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

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. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2011

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. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

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. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million by 2015. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Not every international market matters, but some are larger than life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Not every international market matters, but some are larger than life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Not every international market matters, but some are larger than life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Thus, it needs an advantage to rise above the crowd, such as a patent and trademarks, unique market positioning or support from industry partners. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015. Sustainable competitive advantage. Every solution has competitors and alternatives, or it has no market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Filing a patent and quality testing requires a level of documentation and a detail orientation that one rarely finds in an entrepreneur. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/26/2015. Brings realism to solution-development projections. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

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