socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers.

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MAY 8, 2016

But the idea that you could start a new studio today — with the hundreds of millions required just to launch one blockbuster hit — is absurd. And they have used influencer marketing on YouTube like nobody else I’ve seen, running authentic competitions with top YouTubers including PewDiePie. I took the bait.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M from Moonshots.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We have 25 ideas on ways to publish or package that content, and put it into clip shows on television or other formats. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have. All of those revolve around the central thesis that you have to own your own IP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management. This is an imperative.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. We're not yet talking about pricing and packages, but the idea is we'll have cheaper rates on prepaid and pay-as-you-go.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management. This is an imperative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve had many startup founders tell me that their startup literally has no competition,” said Frank Gruber, Cofounder of Tech.Co, Startup of the Year , and Established. “In What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good. It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. Prepare for Q&A.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Fridman came up with the idea after being approached by an intellectual property attorney at a networking event this past Fall. The man said he was attending to offer startups free IP advice, and Fridman was amazed that there wasn’t a crowd of hungry entrepreneurs picking his brain. No direct competition. What inspired them?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. Fallacy: As discussed in Spilling The Beans , ideas are worthless, while skillful execution is priceless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management. This is an imperative.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. Internet scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At 12.30pm in the afternoon the idea to create the video was hatched. They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. That video is the most viewed Harlem Shake (with more than 15 million views as of today). Participation.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible. The second thing we look at is the quality of the idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

It looks like Nintendo has a new IP up its sleeve. The 3 rd -person splatter debuted at E3 and provides gamer a kid-friendly and colorful approach to competitive gameplay. The squid shooter is a nice break from the traditional competitive games out in the market. Excitement Level: Pretty High. Nintendo | Splatoon. Bayonetta 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We thought it was a good idea so we brought it up to Goldman. Don’t over shop – If the deal you’re involved with involves raising venture capital or selling your company you naturally want some competition. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Thomas said it was partially the lifestyle, but mostly that he had a lot of ideas but limited execution. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea. 0:18:52).

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