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How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Lumbard of CalTech. Scan the Internet for existing patents and some “credible unbiased third party” data that confirms there is really a market for a solution resulting from your idea. Start your search for key resources. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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Mind the Gap Between a Good Idea and Good Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Lumbard of CalTech. Scan the Internet for existing patents and some “credible unbiased third party” data that confirms there is really a market for a solution resulting from your idea. Start your search for key resources. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

Ideas 97
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Entrepreneurs Need Fewer Hot Ideas and More Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

Lumbard of CalTech. Scan the Internet for existing patents and some “credible unbiased third party” data that confirms there is really a market for a solution resulting from your idea. Start your search for key resources. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

Ideas 104
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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

Tech Zulu Event

In turn, these saved resources have also converted into good economics, for the sake of good economics in the form of saved production and operation costs. Between Caltech, USC, and UCLA, $1 billion has been put into research expenditures. UCLA itself has been prodigious in patent filing, and recently launched their own VC fund.

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