Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology developer RealD has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against two companies in Germany, Volfoni and CinemaNext , allegig the two are infringing on a number of its patents. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Beverly Hills-based 3D movie projection systems developer RealD said last week that it has acquired the assets of MasterImage 3D , including all of its intellectual property, technology, inventory, and accounts receivable. RealD won a big patent lawsuit against MasterImage 3D in July of 2016. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2022

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. What can you be the best in the world at?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

We hired more people, have more programming, expanded into more countries, produce better content, speak in more places and are generally more visible. The result of this was that I lost less than I might have if I was less prudent. In this one I am absolutely aggressive on every level. Recessions are a life lesson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Elon Musk and Tesla made their battery patents available to anyone, to clear the path for market infrastructure growth and compatibility, which of course benefits Tesla. Apple expanded their business exponentially with app developers, and Amazon found new ways to make their suppliers look and act like they are part of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. What can you be the best in the world at?

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MARCH 27, 2015

Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! First, it''s very costly, and because there are lots of content and rights issues. However, we felt there was a need for live content. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

He met me in LA to talk about the idea, and we started developing a prototype to deliver a solution in this area. As for the rest of the development, we went back to my roots in London. Los Angeles is also home to media, the home of entertainment, the home of great content. That's been put to good work in the technology space.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Your IoT and visual avatar can speak in your voice, providing any content that you and I could speak. Everything was developed in-house at Idealab. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two. All are separate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. What can you be the best in the world at?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2015

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. What can you be the best in the world at?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Content: It should be intuitive to most that LA is well-suited to take on the world of content meets tech as we’ve seen with Maker Studios, Fullscreen, AwesomenessTV and Big Frame. acquired Overture for $1.63

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JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. Ryan Scott: Originally, we started with consumer facing content.

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APRIL 24, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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JULY 18, 2012

The thing that is interesting, from our content partners and to brands and agencies, is all of the clips has metadata which is transact-able. Allison Dollar: It's taken quite a bit of development. They can then share that across a social network. Was it difficult to connect all of this together on the technical side?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. An adequate use of content in terms of quality, completeness, and depth. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. What can you be the best in the world at?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cashflow is everything.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

I look forward to working with the Company’s dedicated employees to bring innovative products, content, and personalized experiences to users and advertisers all around the world.” 13 plus years of product development. She also played a central role in the development of Gmail and Google News. billion.

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APRIL 28, 2010

We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. We ended up developing products for 120 carriers in 40 countries. What's the idea behind the Twitter support?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Worked and lived abroad so that she could travel a lot.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. Subblime solves this problem by allowing channels to publish content audiences want and extend that to product recommendations from across the web. Founded by L.A.’s

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APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. When we do a deal with a game developer to do integration, and then do another deal, we have to do more integration, etc.

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JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. We have patents filed on this process. Speaking of other site, how does this play into a world where there is so much free content out there? But, it didn't seem scalable.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” You need both to survive.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Build a SWAT team 3.

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MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. They have developed doctor-grade blood, saliva and urine tests approved by the FDA for over-the-counter purchase. Seek (Lehi, UT).

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