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

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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. 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. Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. This could be a patent, key partners, domain expertise, or a better distribution channel.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A series of reports are circling the web regarding a new top secret project being performed by Apple. Tesla may have an edge in the battle because of their novel policy to remove all of their patents. This project has been confirmed to be focused on the building of a self-driving car. The project is officially known as Titan.

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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." Running a business is not an easy job.

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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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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.” Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. After Office 2.0 The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO.

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