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. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Don't miss it! SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

Satisfaction 101

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Custom Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

This is also the place to first mention patents and any other differentiators that put you ahead of competition. Every new offering has competition and alternatives, so it’s not credible to claim no competitors. If you don’t plan a liquidity event, you won’t find many investors interested.

Invest 108

Invest Startup Slides Equity 108

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What we bring to the table is competitive analytics, where we consider your security adversary, and figure how they are trying to break your system, under different scenarios, and recommend a plan which optimizes your security strategy. We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process.

Research 100

Research Patents USC Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

Satisfaction 61

Satisfaction Startup Custom Customer 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Intellectual property and sustainable competitive advantage. Patents, trade secrets, and trademarks are very attractive to investors, since these are not easily overcome by competitors. Discussion of likely liquidity events and exit strategy. Examples of similar events in your industry are especially helpful.

Product 58

Product Slides Entrepreneur Invest 58

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Rather than leave your customer focus at the delivery stage, and technology in the front, customer needs and expectations must be the beginning of your journey via requirements, and remembered all along the way in times of crisis and confusion, competition, growth, failure, and success.

Technical Advisors 82

Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Custom Customer 82

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.”

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Funding Innocal Competition 108

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Be a host company (must provide food / drink to attendees), then email events@techzulu.com with TZTECHCRAWL as the subject. . . Our unique entrepreneurial spirit lends itself perfectly to launching the next great web startup or is generating that fresh spark to create a competitive advantage for a large corporation. Praedicat, Inc.

Culver City 40

Culver City Media Web Design 40

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.”

Innocal 96

Innocal Entrepreneur Competition IBM 96

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Big events can benefit from in-image advertising. Matching ads to content is what they do.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

SXSW Startup Night 2018 is one of the “must attend” events at SXSW and it’s a celebration of inclusion, entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups. The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies.

Startup 80

Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Here is my list of top ten action items to best prepare you for success in achieving a funding event with Angels: Incorporate the business now. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. So what should you do to prepare for this stage in your venture, and optimize your chances of making it through the process?

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# 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. We had a nice discussion on this topic.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. What companies are looking for, and what they care about, are material events. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Here is my list of top ten action items to best prepare you for success in achieving a funding event with angels: Incorporate the business now. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. So what should you do to prepare for this stage in your venture, and optimize your chances of making it through the process?

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Traction means forward progress.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Here is my list of top ten action items to best prepare you for success in achieving a funding event with angels: Incorporate the business now. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. So what should you do to prepare for this stage in your venture, and optimize your chances of making it through the process?

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Traction means forward progress.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Traction means forward progress.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Custom 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Every investor expects to see some traction, both before and after a funding event. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Traction means forward progress.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

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

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Yes, I did say competition.

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

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

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Technical Review Chief Technology Officer 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. This became the immediate compelling event.

Startup 40

Startup Email Venture Capital CTO Hire 40