Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I’m not an investor – I just love the product. Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. It’s a highly engaged audience and the content generated from many of the blogs (not all) are highly valuable. I’ve written before about my love for Disqus.

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Blogging Social Network Google Startup 287

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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products.

Startup 69

Startup Patents IP Social Media 69

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products.

Startup 103

Startup Patents IP Social Media 103

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. You don’t exactly get to make the margin you might like but as a candy bar supplier you need to be there to build awareness of your product with consumers if you want to be a large, mass-market product. Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. Back to video.

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Networking Media Content Customer 366

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. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. You need to do it yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Patents IP 94

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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. ” I highly recommend reading it. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

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.” But if you’re the Director or Product or VP of Marketing – you don’t get to make that decision. There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2012

I am a product of one so maybe there’s resonance there. He has the “perfect business for me” given my blog commentary. Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP. .” I’ve written about similar topics: 1. Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved.

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Startup Entrepreneur IP Venture Capital 336

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

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. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. You need to do it yourself.

Startup 92

Startup Writing Newsletter Blogging 92

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. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. Who do you see using this most?

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I'm a glass half full kind of guy, and it's more of my personal blogging channel. I started to meet lots of people, and really got into this community around personal blogging. You'd think because of the production value it would be the least watched video, but that's not true. Adorian Deck: It's pretty much a full time thing.

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Startup Hollywood Content Examples 100

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 ). Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. You need to do it yourself.

Startup 90

Startup Writing Newsletter Blogging 90

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. Here are some specifics: Company name.

Patents 50

Patents Startup IP Blogging 50

Xconomy

JULY 17, 2017

San Antonio —WiseWear, a San Antonio-based wearable technology maker, has created a new product that uses a low-power wireless network to help users stay connected to an emergency alert services around the globe. Called Vigilant, it will be WiseWear’s second product, following a line of Internet-connected jewelry that allows users.

San Diego 74

San Diego Startup Networking Technology 74

Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence San Diego CTO Hire Outsource Development 62

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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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2018

Some of that food insecurity is due to food spoilage, rendering billions of dollars’ worth of fresh meat, produce, and dairy products inedible. Department of Agriculture. Tackling that issue has become important for retailers and other businesses that sell perishable goods.

Technical Review 55

Technical Review Resource Startup Technology 55

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. See the books I recommend to friends.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

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. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

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

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

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. The decision is already made.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

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. They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US. It was a pure shake down.

Startup 150

Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

When the tech market is done over heating, or over hyping or whatever is going on right now, there will be a select few companies who have built differentiated products, hired talented teams, raised sufficient capital, established good operational processes and have strategic insight into where their market is heading.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I wrote a large check to one of them for a startup with no product and no real plan. We were family.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. No Dave S. = Elder Statesmen.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378