Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Was there consumer demand? 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. No brainer. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. Would they build a world class team.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Don't miss it!

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. About 100 teams participated in that competition, and 10 teams were selected to be part of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage program. How did Tilofy come about? Ali Khoshgozaran: That''s a great question.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear. The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid.

Southern California 100

Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We worked on Beatshare at Chapman, where there was a business plan competition, which we won. From there, we went on to a national competition, California Dreamin, which had over 200 entrants from multiple universities, with undergrad, graduate, and postgraduates from all around the country for three days, and we got second place.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Is it any wonder why so few entrepreneurs ever find the professional investors they seek?

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

In 1917, Mary Phelps Jacobs was granted patent 1,115,674 , which states, “This invention relates to improvements in brassieres.” (sic). The campaign was so successful that it ran through the 1960’s and allowed Maidenform to sell their products at premium prices, well above those of their competition. Innovate Beyond Product Features.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Design Customer Custom 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A C-corporation is more complex and expensive, and is recommended only if you expect to pitch to professional investors who demand preferred stock, or to more than 100 potential shareholders. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

Entrepreneur 59

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Ideas 59

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Be wary of crafty shysters who will flood your mailbox with official-looking mail offering to help for a fee, or demanding fees you forgot to pay.

Ideas 104

Ideas Mentor Resource Entrepreneur 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Is it any wonder why so few entrepreneurs ever find the professional investors they seek?

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Be wary of crafty shysters who will flood your mailbox with official-looking mail offering to help for a fee, or demanding fees you forgot to pay.

Ideas 107

Ideas Mentor Entrepreneur Resource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

I’m not suggesting that any startup needs to demand perfection, but I do recommend that all learn and follow common business practices from the beginning. Filing a provisional patent costs very little if you do it yourself, and it holds your place in line for a year. The path to true success does not allow for shortcuts.

Startup 62

Startup Patents Entrepreneur Writing 62

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Be wary of crafty shysters who will flood your mailbox with official-looking mail offering to help for a fee, or demanding fees you forgot to pay.

Ideas 56

Ideas Mentor Resource Product 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Patents 106

Patents Offshore Startup Demand 106

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. We talked about patents. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. They would give companies $250,000 to launch their products.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. Woolas Hsieh: We certainly feel that flexible solar cells, particularly our plastic solar cells, are very competitive.

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale. Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers.

USC 145

USC Software Review Content Customer 145

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Nobody in our competitive space can do all of those things, because they simply don't control their own destiny, because they don't own their own technology. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

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. However, you should seek a patent attorney when it is time to craft your patent application. Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Marketing 94

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

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.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Marketing 54

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 54

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Offshore 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Marketing 104

Marketing Startup Patents Offshore 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Patents Offshore Startup 103

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? You dont have the same levels of fast turnover as a starting point, right?

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

with demands for new products and services. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. As you begin to saturate the demand in domestic markets, let your brand take you international at low cost. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

Startup 89

Startup Patents Offshore Demand 89

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

Startup 40

Startup Email Venture Capital CTO Hire 40

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. 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. 8211; Garry Tan.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175