socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. We're a company at the intersection of media and technology, so this is a very fertile place for us to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Would they build a world class team.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Both companies actually view what we're doing in the same way they viewed Skype, in that what Skype did for voice we're doing for data.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies. This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. See [link] (more).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. This is going to be fairly specific to the company. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. What is Stealth?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. This is going to be fairly specific to the company. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. What is Stealth?

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Just ask former big brand companies, like Blockbuster, Kodak, Lehman Brothers, and Sears, what happened to them. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Capitalize on strengths and opportunities. You must take advantage of those special team talents and product capabilities that make your startup superior to your competition, and do things that your competition cannot duplicate in the short term. Intellectual property (IP). Form a basis for making better decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Internet scale.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

To capitalize on strengths and opportunities. You must take advantage of those special team talents and product capabilities that make your startup superior to your competition, and do things that your competition cannot duplicate in the short term. Intellectual property (IP). To form a basis for making better decisions.

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Startup Competition IP Patents 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’ve always been a big believer that just a couple of key individuals make all of the difference in a company’s success. 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. Patron Companies. The ingredients are all here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. Many companies that were in the process of raising money did not. Let me start with a story.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Technical Advisors 301

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Theyre like companies in the US like and ATT or Verizon, or an Orange in France, or others in Poland and Russia and other countries. Whats the relationship of this company to Gary Winnick?

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating. Your income drops.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating. Your income drops.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

In fact, there are several types of valuations and they come into play at different times in a company’s lifecycle. For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. Business valuations = the price of the company.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

As is typically the case in any industry, but even more so in security, larger companies with established customers and products typically innovate more slowly than startups that are not encumbered by a legacy business. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating. Your income drops.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A very big thanks to Alexandra Harris, the founder of FanCause , a company that aims to connect entertainment brands with their fans to raise money. Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating. Your income drops.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. For those not familiar with BigStage, tell us what the company is doing with your avatar technology?

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