InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues” . Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty.

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IP Patents Company Companies 256

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2010

Culver City-based Fonality , a developer of Voice-over-IP, business PBX phone software, said late last week that it served its one-billionth cloud-based call recently, and had "record sales" during Q4. Fonality is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Intel Capital, and Azure Capital Partners, and is headed by Chris Lyman.

Culver City 145

Culver City Draper IP Sales 145

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. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

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.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Content 175

Content Startup Social Media IP 175

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Why did you decide to move to venture capital? Sometimes what I say, is if brand is your moat, and you're a direct-to-consumer company, versus where you really have some technology, and you have some IP, that's the side of the spectrum we play on. It's not necessarily to be the sales person, but to be able to sell me on the vision.

Southern California 133

Southern California Startup Layoffs Venture Capital 133

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. ” Whatever answers they have manufactured the only thing I hear is, “Because we can.”

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. 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. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? What is Stealth?

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. 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. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? What is Stealth?

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

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. Computers and electronics now are almost at a parity between offline and online sales.

Compton 138

Compton Ventura Startup IP 138

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash. Create a bottom-up financial forecast that uses your detailed budget and sales projections as the starting point. Managing working capital, mainly cash at this stage, is critical since liquidity is a huge concern. Establish a simple accounting system.

Tips 90

Tips Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 90

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2014

We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash. Create a bottom-up financial forecast that uses your detailed budget and sales projections as the starting point. Managing working capital, mainly cash at this stage, is critical since liquidity is a huge concern. Establish a simple accounting system.

Tips 101

Tips Startup Outsource Development Sales 101

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. A great CFO can help you negotiate venture debt to extend your runway or cover these working capital timing issues. Legal threats from other IP holders? Here’s the dilemma.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

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.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). 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.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Capitalize on strengths and opportunities. All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Show that your business can build the necessary products and services rapidly and achieve economies of scale with minimum capital and labor.

Startup 99

Startup Competition IP Patents 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish sales targets and how to manage a sales pipeline. I never built Google.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. It isn’t even a story about raising venture capital or M&A. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. Don’t over shop – If the deal you’re involved with involves raising venture capital or selling your company you naturally want some competition. Any deal.

Venture Capital 301

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Technical Advisors 301

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

To capitalize on strengths and opportunities. All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Show that your business can build the necessary products and services rapidly and achieve economies of scale with minimum capital and labor.

Startup 92

Startup Competition IP Patents 92

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

Your capital needs — how much you plan to spend, on what assets, for what expected impact. Recent equity sales i.e., comparables. Oh, and one other thing; if you plan on selling your business or raising capital, most potential investors and all savvy acquirers will request an audit. The industry’s competitive dynamics.

IP 40

IP Equity Examples Guide 40

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?

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. According to OrthoWorx, a community-industry partnership in the global orthopedic sector, the cluster of orthopedic businesses in Warsaw has more than $11 billion in annual sales, which is almost one-third of the industry’s world sales volume.

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I finally called bullshit. They finally quit.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

The private companies with the strongest product technology, most readily able to address the next generation of evolving threats, driven by solid sales and marketing execution, will ultimately be the winners. More than any other IT segment, compelling technology and defensible IP are a critical piece of any security solution.

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

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. In any sale--and raising money is a sale--establishing credibility early on is important. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

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. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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. 2) People/companies who are solving the merchant problem of managing the influx of location-based services, increasing sales and repeat business.

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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