socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

Vanessa Dawson: The Vinetta Project is an entreneurial ecosystem and deal flow pipeline that works with early stage, female tech founders, and helps them to access both resources and capital for their business. We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. How long have you been active in Los Angeles?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

I second the message that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.” Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even great entrepreneurs are amazed at how fast this can lead to a non-recoverable situation. Employees stop innovating.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Need office or Tech Space?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. You need all of these people to bake the cake.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. I also will point out that in the The 15 Mistakes of First Time Entrepreneurs : 9. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. You need all of these people to bake the cake.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Jennifer Monti, MD, a cardiologist and entrepreneur, is the director of Maine Medical Center’s new ‘Innovation Cohort’. Unfortunately, health systems—and the education of people who work within health systems—are not designed to capitalize on the insights of their employees, she said. Questions of IP. The Program.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. “We understand how much money you can make from the IP. The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley. ” And Toonstar is building an audience.

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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. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. in a seed funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2012

I’m fond of saying that I look for entrepreneurs that have a chip on their shoulder. Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved. I met an entrepreneur. Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP. Every great entrepreneur has been turned down dozens of times.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. You own the IP you create.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

More than 80 percent of the IP out of those institutions gets licensed, but less than 20 percent of that goes into startups. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation. more) READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

DeFevere is active in serving the local technology community, is an angel investor, and also helps run one of the longest running private technology networking groups in the Los Angeles area for venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and service providers. Identify the collective IP to commercialize. Thou shalt weave a story.

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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. For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

I “second the message” that chaos never subsides, from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos.” Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even great entrepreneurs are amazed at how fast this can lead to a non-recoverable situation. Employees stop innovating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). Availability of Capital. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

What makes us unique is we've filed a lot of IP on these timed, repetitive searches, and I think that's what is going to give us a unique value proposition. We're filing a lot of IP, and this repetitive search thing is big for us. For us, this is the last e-commerce frontier, which we want to capitalize on. Are you funded yet?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur. What is TrackStreet?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

Of course investors care about controls (board, protective provisions, IP assignments, non-solicitation) but these are all pretty standard. What I’ve found over the years is that this forces way more clarity on the entrepreneurs at fund raising time. Those are the big three. So let’s simplify down to: Ownership %.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” You will learn about running board meetings, setting up the ultimate financial plan, leading a team from the top, dealing with the press, raising capital, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed. This leads to the problem of “herding cats&# for entrepreneurs raising angel money. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

To capitalize on strengths and opportunities. Show that your business can build the necessary products and services rapidly and achieve economies of scale with minimum capital and labor. Intellectual property (IP). Tags: strategy entrepreneur startups business. Scalability. Now it’s your move. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? And board confidence matters in growing companies. It’s the norm more than you think.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

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. One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. It's in the DNA of entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Los Angeles-based Science37 (www.science37.com)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

I second the message from a couple of successful entrepreneurs, Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, in their book “ Conquer the Chaos ” that chaos never subsides. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even great entrepreneurs are amazed at how fast this can lead to a non-recoverable situation. Employees stop innovating.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. Both patented and non-patented intellectual property from universities and colleges in Indiana have been turned into successful products and processes by licensing IP to already-established companies or to entrepreneurs looking to launch a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Capitalize on strengths and opportunities. Show that your business can build the necessary products and services rapidly and achieve economies of scale with minimum capital and labor. Intellectual property (IP). Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, publishers are also going through disruption, magazines are going to digital as well as video, and were helping publishers to go and capitalize on the video side of publishing. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. Number six are publishers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. Tags: tompkins travel interview entrepreneur adventurelink services kelly adventure. They all failed, because what they decided to do was be a single, standalone website. Thanks for the interview, and good luck!

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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. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block username.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. 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. Register a company. Starting with 25% is even harder. Assemble a team.

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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. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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