Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Universities have the links you need to patent attorneys, prototyping companies, investment groups, as well as a wealth of peer talent to round out your team and share the work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Through these student and faculty interactions, I have gathered empirical (but non-scientific), first-hand evidence of the factors that contribute to a world-class undergraduate entrepreneurial program. Practitioners, Not Professors – classes should be taught by people who have fought hand-to-hand combat in the startup trenches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Access to intellectual property and current research.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. Would they build a world class team. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. Were they ambitious? Did they have the right skills?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rock Prodigy is Music Prodigy’s pioneer product and is a revolutionary interactive music app powered by patent-pending polyphonic pitch-recognition technology that allows musicians of all skill levels to use any instrument and provide instant performance feedback to accelerate learning. Practice, Right Skills & Experience.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

(www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. This is the new world of prototyping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. This is the new world of prototyping.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

I was then sitting in my economics classes, and saying--I bet other people would like to buy these. We did get a patent on our first, snap-on camera mount, but maybe if we had put a little more resources and time into solidifying those patents, so they were not easily worked around would have been good. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Or worse yet, the entrepreneur is so arrogant that he hasn’t even used Google to figure out he has competition just down the street. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Or worse yet, the entrepreneur is so arrogant that he hasn’t even used Google to figure out he has competition just down the street. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2010.”

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

However, if you''re successful, the payout is quite large, and there''s a little bit less competition in the space. That said, we have differentiated technology, 38 patents, of which 15 have been granted, a unique positoin, unique technology set, which really provides a huge advantage.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

Grokker was founded to address the 3 biggest problems experienced by busy people frustrated with a lack of time to devote to wellness pursuits: 1) easy to discover video classes taught by experts in their domain with a unique point of view; 2) beautiful high quality, tv-like, video that is the opposite of the spotty UGC commonly found online; and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. At present, no world patents or international patent process really exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. with demands for new products and services.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

In order to get the most out of your discussions with your lawyer, take one or more Business Law classes. Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” and trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2023

On the other hand, if you have a new technology, with patent applied for, maybe you more time to get it right. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent now to 56 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2020

On the other hand, if you have a new technology, with patent applied for, maybe you more time to get it right. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent now to 56 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million by 2015. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country.

Marketing 104

Marketing Startup Patents Offshore 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Patents Offshore Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

China’s middle class is expected to grow to some 650 million by 2010. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

On the other hand, if you have a new technology, with patent applied for, maybe you more time to get it right. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2016

On the other hand, if you have a new technology, with patent applied for, maybe you more time to get it right. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2014

On the other hand, if you have a new technology, with patent applied for, maybe you more time to get it right. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. Every person on my team was A-class. The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition. Bootstrap 2. Acquirer 9.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Yet entrepreneurs in one class think that the others aren’t the “real” entrepreneurs. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. 8211; Garry Tan.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications.

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