Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Disclosures of information. With public shareholders and high liability risks, every public company must disclose and answer to shareholders and the press on all material information regarding the company, its operations, and its management. Annual reporting and audit requirements continue to increase. Loss of control.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

There's a volume of data, plenty of it, including information coming from sensor networks, machine-generated stuff, and lots of unstructured data such as MRIs, X-rays, tweets, and everything else, which everyone is trying to make sense of. It's just exploding. Predixion is a great example of that.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2009

As shown at left, pour your money into a customer acquisition funnel, apply a bit of gentle stirring to generate a steady flow of mo money, mo money, mo money. The trick is to modulate the inflow of cash with the ever changing market conditions in order to maximize your financial return. Perfect Imperfection. from the Wharton School.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Disclosures of information. With public shareholders and high liability risks, every public company must disclose and answer to shareholders and the press on all material information regarding the company, its operations, and its management. Annual reporting and audit requirements continue to increase. Loss of control.

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Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Another argument is that software by itself is information, not physical. It is in the jargon not “technical.”

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Patents Software Technical Advisors Innocal 91

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. As noted in How To Maximize Your Value At A Startup , I also held a variety of positions while at Expertcity. Flexibility and putting the company first were intrinsic aspects of our culture. .

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Review the person’s publicly available information from social media sites. This maximizes the chance you will identify the correct email address, without making it overly obvious that you are guessing. Whenever they are unable to close a sale, they maximize the impact of the interaction by asking for the name of another prospect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

The good news is that a patent can scare off, or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). The argument is that software by itself is information, not physical. Yet the software patent process is a mess.

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Patents Software Technical Advisors IBM 50

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Secondly, it's a changing environment for studios, as they are looking for ways to maximize their assets. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. It helped that we could speak to that problem, and help the studios address that issue by giving consumers a legal alternative. So, online video was right in my wheel house.

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Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data. Gold Sponsor. .

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data. Gold Sponsor. .

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Thus, the burden of maximizing the return on your legal dollars is squarely on your shoulders. You cannot rely on the IP lawyer to coax such vital information from you. If taking part-time evening courses is not possible, seek out an online curriculum. Money Is Time. Drop Dead Deadlines – Your lawyer cannot read your mind.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I just completed a new book on this challenge, “ Disrupt-It-Yourself ,” by Simone Bhan Ahuja, which includes a great summary of the required attributes to maximize your success potential in this area. Because fostering entrepreneurship internally is hard, many companies have now shifted their innovation focus to acquisitions and partnerships.

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Company Companies Software Review IBM 93