Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

It is the one skill, process or advantage you have over your competition. 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. Which of your IP assets is your core? Consider your core.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M

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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. Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well.

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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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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content?

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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.

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Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

However, his first-hand knowledge of how software is created, tested and commercialized facilitated his execution of Microsoft’s initial strategy, in which it leveraged its operating system to create a suite of business productivity solutions. Banana IP. "Intellectual I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Redefine your product to reach a new category.

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Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

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 Patents IP Social Media 69

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

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. Newsflash – you’ll never have as many customers as Walmart because they sell every kind of product but there are many other retailers who distribute candy bars as well.

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Networking Media Content Customer 366

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings. 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.

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Startup Competition IP Patents 99

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.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

But we also have to make sure we're competitive in our existing markets. The other thing we do is continue to invest in products and build really new, innovative technology in the markets we already serve. We have to acquire to get into some new markets. Then, we have a company like Anue which is growing very fast, and accelerating.

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Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Fear of failure can kill innovation.

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Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

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 Patents IP Social Media 103

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.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings. 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.

Startup 92

Startup Competition IP Patents 92

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 logged into a room to listen to music & see what the product was all about. The topic of FourSquare came up. To ignore FourSquare would be dumb.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Fear of failure can kill innovation.

Coach 93

Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

However, there is still room for competition. These drivers have become the destination for their spaces like Amazon with consumer products, Aetna with healthcare needs, and USAA for life events. – Add complementary and possibly competitor products. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales.

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Organization Customer Custom Study 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

As exploits become more sophisticated and frequent, the security products needed to better detect, defend, and remediate need to dramatically improve at an accelerated pace. Thus, in the booming cybersecurity industry, valued at over $75 billion in 2015 by Gartner , these larger companies evolve their product lines via M&A.

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Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Don’t count on your IP to save you. The easiest way to reduce chaos is to buffer all your activities (slow down), define safer generic processes, which spiral down productivity. Your products quickly become outdated. With decreased employee productivity and outdated technology, your costs go up, and income drops.

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Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Don’t count on your IP to save you. The easiest way to reduce chaos is to buffer all your activities (slow down), define safer generic processes, which spiral down productivity. Your products quickly become outdated. With decreased employee productivity and outdated technology, your costs go up, and income drops.

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Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

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. Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup.

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Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Is it one product line or multiple? If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

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

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. Angels will largely take a product risk (they bet on the product or idea and your ability to build it). “A” The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea.

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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. They may be new to LA, but I think they get it. Internap’s Redondo Beach facility isn’t just for server space however.

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Redondo Beach IP Southern California Entertainment 104

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Don’t count on your IP to save you. The easiest way to reduce chaos is to buffer all your activities (slow down), define safer generic processes, which spiral down productivity. Your products quickly become outdated. With decreased employee productivity and outdated technology, your costs go up, and income drops.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. billion views. think Apple.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Make sure all team members have some connection with the product – has either used it, or sold it, or assembled it. Fear of failure can kill innovation.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49