Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth. Banana IP. "Intellectual As described in IP Is Worthless To A Startup , most startups over estimate the value of their intellectual property. Treasure it. " [Tweet this quote]. . "Intellectual

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s A deck is a deck. Just send it.

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

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. In some cases there is competition, and there are other people trying to acquire a video. All of those revolve around the central thesis that you have to own your own IP.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. False Confidence.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

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. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

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. How do you go about trying to completely disrupt the entire telecom industry? We're looking to completely revolutionize home Internet.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. False Confidence.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners. This revenue share comes after the YouTube split.

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Networking Media Content Customer 366

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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IP Culver City Customer Custom 138

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 13, 2011

On July 19th, you wont want to miss this RARE opportunity to hear two foremost legal experts on Intellectual Property rights, protection and risks  and what you need to do to keep your IP safe! Regardless of what industry you are in, you need to understand the complex laws and processes to carefully protect your competitive edge.

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IP Competition Networking Company 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m check on average to get 20% ownership and we had much less time to do an evaluation.

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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.

Startup 145

Startup Patents IP Social Media 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies. This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships.

Enterprise Forum 100

Enterprise Forum CalTech IP Content 100

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

But we also have to make sure we're competitive in our existing markets. They are IP acquisitions with some amount of channel and product, and are really meant as an IP acquisition into our core platform. Do you feel like acquisitions at your stage very important to making growth happen? Vic Alston: We have got to to do both.

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Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

And that has had me thinking about the tech sector and how dismissive both startup teams & VCs can be about both their competition and the “hot” companies in any sector. I loved the competition to get on stage and then how when you’re on stage you have to wait patiently to play your tracks.

Startup 313

Startup Press Writing News 313

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

You may not be aware of all the data your company stores, or whether it is usable at the atomic level – by source location or name or IP address. Big data – thick data – will be a competitive battlefield in this next generation of atomized marketing. Then decide whether there is unmined gold in those undiscovered places.

Marketing 120

Marketing IP Email Class 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

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. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

You must take advantage of those special team talents and product capabilities that make your startup superior to your competition, and do things that your competition cannot duplicate in the short term. Intellectual property (IP). Form a basis for making better decisions. No strategy leads to no decisions or poor decisions.

Startup 99

Startup Competition IP Patents 99

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Our analytics team is second to none, in our ability to leverage our IP and methods to isolate the effect of those activities, and look at them to figure out how to drive outcomes. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

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.

Startup 103

Startup Patents IP Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

You must take advantage of those special team talents and product capabilities that make your startup superior to your competition, and do things that your competition cannot duplicate in the short term. Intellectual property (IP). To form a basis for making better decisions. No strategy leads to no decisions or poor decisions.

Startup 92

Startup Competition IP Patents 92

Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

It is the one skill, process or advantage you have over your competition. Which of your IP assets is your core? Consider your core. Then think of all the things you do to surround that core with people and assets that complete your company and allow you to release your product or perform your service.

Resource 120

Resource IP Organization Services 120

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.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Patents IP 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Yet survival in today’s world of rapid business change requires that you keep one step ahead of your competition.

Coach 98

Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2013

To support this growth, Internap has not only taken notice, but in response, has jumped leaps and bounds ahead of their competition to provide a foundation of support structure that Southern California needs. Internap’s Redondo Beach facility isn’t just for server space however.

Redondo Beach 104

Redondo Beach IP Southern California Entertainment 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Yet survival in today’s world of rapid business change requires that you keep one step ahead of your competition.

Coach 93

Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

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. “If No direct competition. I am defining competition as a platform to offer free Advice to Entrepreneurs. Continue with Google ads and look for sponsorships.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Startup Paramount Social Media 89

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.

Startup 69

Startup Patents IP Social Media 69

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. Most won’t be of the quality that you want but you now have tons of material and inspiration for your show and you own all of the submitted IP.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. For example, even the giant Amazon acquired Whole Foods as a growth entryway into the competitive grocery and food industry.

Examples 99

Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

However, there is still room for competition. This means knowing the customers’ names and addresses, demographics, IP addresses, purchase histories both with your company and other companies, and life events like weddings and births or (for businesses) upcoming mergers. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales.

Organization 91

Organization Customer Custom Study 91

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Read our guide to the best VoIP desk phones to check out its competition. Check out how it compared to its competition in our guide to the best CRM marketing platforms.

Tool 115

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Yet survival in today’s world of rapid business change requires that you keep one step ahead of your competition.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49