Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

PlayVS supports high school e-sport athletes and celebrates competitive e-sports, allowing any student enrolled in high school to join a team and compete online, with no limit to unique teams per high school and without having to tryout. Additionally, due to the fires in Malibu, we have been testing various air filtration system.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Brightwheel’s successes aren’t going on unnoticed, either.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) What is Fuel50? versus New Zealand?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules. Internal legal reviews and required new processes were slow to finalize. Even with these extra challenges, the IBM PC was developed and delivered in eighteen months – at that time faster than any other mixed hardware and software product in IBM’s history.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. Growth hackers are the marketing equivalent of clever software hackers and are highly respected by investors. Sweat equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution. Startup leaders have to be relentlessly resourceful in overcoming obstacles and competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/10/2016. Focus on prior results, not titles.

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