Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2015

Market change happens too frequently these days, and organizations need to quickly change course just to survive. And without knowing where you stand, there is no way to set a course. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. What can you be the best in the world at?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the technical expertise resides here--we found some very brilliant acoustic engineers at UCLA who are doing a big chunk of the processing--and we in fact think we've done something sufficiently interesting that we have some patents in provisional state, and we hope to lock that down in the next year or two. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Market change happens too frequently these days, and organizations need to quickly change course just to survive. And without knowing where you stand, there is no way to set a course. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. What can you be the best in the world at?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Matching ads to content is what they do. from Carnegie Mellon University. How does it work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cashflow is everything.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2014

Protection — Of course the tangible value of NDAs, and the reason they’re so prevalent in the startup ecosystem is that as contracts, they set out clear obligations and concrete remedies for addressing breaches of confidentiality. Sparingly; and only when the circumstances are appropriate. What’s been your experience with NDAs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Of course, I understand and don’t condone bad actors who get greedy, and exploit ways to unjustly squeeze customers and employees. The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry. Remember you can’t sustain a business or social cause with no revenue or profit.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Dare I steer off the course from the tried-and-true PowerPoint ritual? Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. What we are looking for here is a breakthrough in technology (patented), manufacturing process, or new revenue model, that results in an order-of-magnitude cost reduction.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Stage two: They say the solution was obvious all along." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. By Frank Addante "Inventing things is a two-stage process. Stage one: Everyone says its impossible. Convincing others to believe in your idea is hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. What we are looking for here is a breakthrough in technology (patented), manufacturing process, or new revenue model, that results in an order-of-magnitude cost reduction.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. And be generous. We’ve found some good ones!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2010

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. What we are looking for here is a breakthrough in technology (patented), manufacturing process, or new revenue model, that results in an order-of-magnitude cost reduction.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. This would later inspire the genesis of StrongMail. So much for resting!

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