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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

Startup 150

Startup SEM IP SEO 150

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

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.

IP 100

IP Competition Networking Company 100

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

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

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

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.

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Resource Organization IP Services 120

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

And they have used influencer marketing on YouTube like nobody else I’ve seen, running authentic competitions with top YouTubers including PewDiePie. So every company that I now work with or talk to that has a need for character-based IP — I always direct them to Andrew.

Startup 150

Startup IP Class Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Would they build a world class team.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

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

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 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

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

Tips 275

Tips Startup IP Santa Barbara 275

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.

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 131

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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

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.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

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

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.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Paramount 89

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

JANUARY 11, 2019

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.

IP 93

IP Invest Patents Social Media 93

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.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. Then apply for the Startup of the Year Competition today. Prepare for Q&A.

Tips 70

Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. There are always people around with deeper pockets that can find synergy between your space and theirs. Employees stop innovating. Your products quickly become outdated.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. There are always people around with deeper pockets that can find synergy between your space and theirs. Employees stop innovating. Your products quickly become outdated.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

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

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. No matter what the industry view on Symantec, the other larger established security vendors, to remain competitive and grow in the enterprise market, will absolutely need to acquire other startups to provide best-in-class products.

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

To make sure your IP is protected — As I’ve written before, failing to develop an IP strategy, including a plan for protecting your IP as well as avoiding unwitting infringements of someone else’s, is a huge mistake. Hire professionals to handle the details of company formation paperwork when you first start up.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Technology keeps improving at a rapid rate, so you fall behind in technology, driving costs up, and you become non-competitive. There are always people around with deeper pockets that can find synergy between your space and theirs. Employees stop innovating. Your products quickly become outdated.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Competition 95