Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

It started with a series of books and is now a multi-billion dollar franchise with products, theme parks and games. But the problem with most games companies is that they build products more than character franchises. We bought the narrative and backed the team at Seriously, whose hit first product is called Best Fiends.

Startup 150

Startup IP Class Media 150

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. How’s that for duality.

Startup 150

Startup SEM IP SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

Examples 99

Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. 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. Think Glendale.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

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.

Tips 275

Tips Startup IP Santa Barbara 275

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?

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision. Underestimate this risk at your peril.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

Vic Alston: We have strategy when we look at acquisitions, where we ultimately want to grow our addressable market. We want to grow our company's addressable market by 100 percent in the next two to three years. One of the things the Anue acquisition does, is it brings us into a whole new market, the live network market.

Acquisition 173

Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

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. So you don’t “build a Walmart candy bar business” – you distribute products there – and at margins lower than you’d like.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

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. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market. They're fantastic backers.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

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. I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. " Ummm. False Confidence.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

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

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. I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. " Ummm. False Confidence.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

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. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. Is it one product line or multiple?

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? 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 hear views like this all the time.

Startup 313

Startup Press Writing News 313

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.

Startup 99

Startup Competition IP Patents 99

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?

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. 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. Why is this happening?

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

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

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.

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

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.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

.” “[Founders underestimate] how difficult it is to get a deal done, and how few deals get funded out of how many deals that are pitched,” said Thomas Flake , Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of bcause , and who has been on both sides of the table. What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good.

Tips 70

Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

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

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.

Entrepreneur 105

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.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

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.

Redondo Beach 104

Redondo Beach IP Southern California Entertainment 104

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. 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. Are you going to do all of this?

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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. Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. But make it competitive. They want to lock in future clients at an early stage.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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.

Content 113

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

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. 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. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. 7) Hire A Consultant.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

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

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

Valuation is one of those ubiquitous words: at least when it comes to discussions around startups — and, of course, stock market multiples. And there are public market valuations for where stocks trade now and predictions for what they’ll be worth in the future. Market sentiment. The industry’s competitive dynamics.

IP 40

IP Equity Examples Guide 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

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.

Startup 57

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 57

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100