socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We thought we'd take a look at the trend, so we recently talked with Adorian Deck (https://www.youtube.com/user/AdorianDeck), an up and coming 22-year old Youtuber, who told us his story about how he's made Youtube his full time gig, and gives us some insight into the world of influencers and branded videos. It's a nice escape from reality.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. First off, talk about SendLove.to and what is it all about? We have about 50 political sites using the tool already.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” ” If you don’t create the message about yourself, the market will. Nobody sees you as a CEO since you’ve never been one? Of course you could start your own company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. You need to do it yourself. Give it to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. ” I highly recommend reading it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. You need to do it yourself. Give it to them.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. The use of intellectual property (IP) to claim these tools can be problematic. But first, consider that a song is a combination of different elements. There may be vocals, guitars, bass, drums, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. You need to do it yourself. Give it to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. I talked about this in my social proof post where I gave some suggestions about how to get the early guys off of the fence. Photo credit: D. rings true to me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. He signed a release and remained on the board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Attorney fees start at around $5K, but provisional patents can be filed yourself for about $300. Trademarks.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

How about this one? I write a bit more about how entrepreneurs can protect their ideas here: Spilling The Beans. Listing a variety of bread-and-butter IP protection tactics would not have been as compelling. In this particular instance, I was tired and about to sign off for the night. 348 votes by <redacted> .

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

The company now has about 100 employees at its San Diego headquarters, and in offices in Austin, TX, and Redwood City, CA. The Intellisis link is no longer active] Goldin, who is now 75, declined to talk about the company at the time, writing in an e-mail, “We have not yet publically discussed our commercial product offerings.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Attorney fees start at around $5K, but provisional patents can be filed yourself for about $300. Trademarks.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Im just saying this so that youdont get your hopes too high about what you can actually achieve. How to Identify the Bot You Want to Block Before you can block a bot, you will need to know at least one of two things: the IP address where the bot is coming from or the"User Agent string" that the bot is using. They look like "127.0.0.1".

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). from the IP address range 65.52.0.0

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. This blog is to address these questions. Block IP address. 1 point.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The Twitter pest that costs you hard earned money WTF I’m ranting about?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Most corporate attorneys can give you general guidance with respect to securing your Intellectual Property (IP) rights, especially with respect to trademarks, copyrights and other non-patent-related items. You do not want your IP lawyer to learn the prior art associated with your technology on your dime. Your Lawyer is not a Doberman….

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. Make sure you own your IP.

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JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. Attorney fees start at around $5K, but provisional patents can be filed yourself for about $300. Trademarks.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. Zynga wasn’t founded because they read about similar successes on TechCrunch, they built early and pioneered. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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