Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 27, 2016
For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. There is no such thing as a world-wide patent.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2021
As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore.
InfoChachkie
AUGUST 10, 2010
Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. The average time required to obtain a patent is 36-to-40 months, during which there is no guarantee your adVenture will ultimately receive patent protection. Even if you are granted a patent, the scope of your claims may be significantly denuded.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 30, 2016
I understand this instinct for more capital and I have two very different personal experiences: In my first company we raised an A-round of $16.5 Because investors need to imagine making a minimum of 10x their invested capital and early-stage investors are shooting for even higher multiples. I have this “How much should I raise?”
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. We checked patents. Working on it.
socalTECH
JULY 31, 2013
We also operate the network software than runs and manages the entire network layer, from access point to end point. It''s very resistant to interference, due to the way the technology was designed. This last round is a significant amount of capital, why the new funding? Kevin Hell: Hardware companies do require more capital.
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