Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If you deliver a great service, but no one knows it, your business will suffer.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so focused on finalizing their innovative product or service that they procrastinate on the formalities of forming the requisite new company until later. Patents issued to you before you incorporate the business will not be considered part of the business valuation by investors.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

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AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If you deliver a great service, but no one knows it, your business will suffer.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. This priority applies to big companies, as well as startups. Customer data integrity and security. Payback on investment.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly. Almost anyone can start a company today on a shoestring budget, following these cost-cutting recommendations: Establish a solid legal structure for your business.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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. Build a web site and incorporate while in school. Initiate networking to find peer partners and investors.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

At SGN we've seen steady revenue growth and we are a profitable company. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Working for a well-funded existing company, or pursuing your dream as a hobby, may be more satisfying and productive. You need intellectual property , such as a patent, trade secret, or process expertise that will be a barrier that you can defend. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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JUNE 19, 2009

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JUNE 26, 2009

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JUNE 5, 2009

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Can you tell us more about your company. Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water. What makes the Coachella Valley an ideal place to start a company? STEM degrees are also needed to feed the talent needs of technology companies.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Can you tell us more about your company. Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water. What makes the Coachella Valley an ideal place to start a company? STEM degrees are also needed to feed the talent needs of technology companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

This is going to be fairly specific to the company. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? How Stealthy Should You Be? False Confidence.

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MAY 22, 2009

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. This priority applies to big companies, as well as startups. Customer data integrity and security. Payback on investment.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

This is going to be fairly specific to the company. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? How Stealthy Should You Be? False Confidence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. A different message everywhere is no message.

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JULY 24, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. They include: Sponsors.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. What does your company do? How did the company come about? Sce Pike: My background is from the web world.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. We spoke with Curtis, along with William Goldbach , Executive Vice President at the firm, about the company.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. Optimize your web history and presence.

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MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If you deliver a great service, but no one knows it, your business will suffer.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

That results in huge savings--up to 75 percent--in price, and you can also do it all in about ten minutes, because we've integrated directly with your course schedule, and filtered through the entire web simultaneously. How did you come up with the web site? They act as mentors and help companies grow.

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