Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Disclosures relative to patents. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, even with a CDA in place. Product details in the public domain can never be patented.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

For example, Elon Musk, who owns many battery patents , normally kept for a competitive edge, decided to open them all to any competitors in an effort to expand the market for his electric vehicles. Plus you can challenge yourself to keep abreast of technology advancements in related industries, looking for a fit in your own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Get an NDA before detailed patent disclosures. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, until after a non-disclosure or other contract has been signed. Some entrepreneurs avoid the patent process, since patent details become public once a patent is issued.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Technology. Advertisers. www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. portfolio management - U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business. His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. This could be a patent, key partners, domain expertise, or a better distribution channel. I need your help in getting it to market.”

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

This weekend, much of academia and industry involved in cancer will gather in Chicago for the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference. Supreme Court this week refused to reinstate four disputed patents related to daptomycin, according to Reuters. —When Merck (NYSE: MRK ) bought Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

If your solution and brand are really new and innovative, you need to protect them with a patent, trademark or trade secret. Investors are people too, and they expect new entrepreneurs to be visible in industry conferences, talks with peer investors as advisors or simply exploring investor interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. This could be a patent, key partners, domain expertise, or a better distribution channel. Everybody knows about these, but few people seem to deliver a good one. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion. What is your competitive advantage?

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

There's a fairly complex platform we've patented. I was traveling and in San Francisco, and at the TechCrunch conference in 2007 I ran into a group of folks from LA. At the same time, to make all that complexity work, we had to make it simple. Paige Craig: In 2007, I stepped back from a company called the Lincoln Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

” In a separate talk at Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored conference, Mickey Drexler , CEO of J.Crew and member of Apple’s board of directors, also confirmed that Jobs would have been supportive of the new plan to design an iCar. “Look at the car industry; it’s a tragedy in America.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Their patented multi-purpose cleaning formula was recently approved by Boeing to replace toxic solvents. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. After Office 2.0 Page 3: Competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. We talked about patents. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. Overture (Goto.com).

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration."

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

If you measure it in terms of patents generated, measure it in terms of the number of technical jobs per 100,000 residents--it's very high on all analytical measurements. Thanks for the time this morning. How has your first year been? Those are the three biggest innovation clusters Orange County really has.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Technology wise, we've got our own engineering expertise, and we've built our own video softphone with HD video--which we have in alpha--for HD videoconferencing on a standard CPU, as opposed to the extremely expensive, $20,000 systems that exist now in corporate conference rooms.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. Mark Suster: Often, the times you have a venture capitalist listening to you, or a potential business partner, is at a conference. You're racing between sessions.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 9, 2016

—arguments from both sides of the epic CRISPR patent fight. We’ll start with the national news, check in with news from a big Alzheimer’s meeting, then dig into plenty more about the annual American Society of Hematology conference, surprising M&A, fundings, and.

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