Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Of course, it’s always good to speak with conviction, but marketing terms such as “improved productivity” or “lower cost” won’t make your offering memorable. For example, “I have patented a new tire that will double the wear mileage at half the cost.” Lead with your best marketing pitch and conviction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? No known patents filed. Maybe the solution hasn’t yet been commercialized, but a patent has been submitted by someone else, putting your idea in jeopardy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2011

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? No known patents filed. Maybe the solution hasn’t yet been commercialized, but a patent has been submitted by someone else, putting your idea in jeopardy.

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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. Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). Yes, Google won. It is different. More substantive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Of course, we have all read about the “new” company with $100M valuation, but I haven’t met one yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. It also makes legal sense to never disclose the details of your patent application, before the product is ready to ship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. Optimize your web history and presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Of course, we have all read about the “new” company with $100M valuation, but I haven’t met one yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. It also makes legal sense to never disclose the details of your patent application, before the product is ready to ship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store. The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. Optimize your web history and presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2010

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? No patents filed. Maybe the solution hasn’t yet been commercialized, but a patent has been submitted by someone else, putting your idea in jeopardy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. It also makes legal sense to never disclose the details of your patent application, before the product is ready to ship. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Of course, we have all read about the “new” company with $100M valuation, but I haven’t met one yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry. Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. The underpinning of the technology is much more complex than that, of course, and we've been building this for awhile.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. 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. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

And of course, we’d like to thank our amazing panels of speakers for pouring their knowledge into the mental chalices of our present and virtual attendees. To him, there’s a lot of money on the table for things like clean web, but if there aren’t any meat and potatoes projects, the whole system isn’t as effective.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Dare I steer off the course from the tried-and-true PowerPoint ritual? Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. 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. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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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. And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. 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. Shopping.com.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. 8 Really Cool Web-Based Tools for Bloggers - Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog , June 1, 2010 Looking for cool applications to help you make your blog or site all it can be?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control. Be scrappy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I just saw an interesting step in that direction via a new book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. Too many Innovators are like Dean Kamen , still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter , while holding 440 other device patents. Internal forces (your startup team).

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. Acquirer 9.

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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. requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots.

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