Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Registered patents and other intellectual property. By definition, entrepreneurs need to love the art of the start, and that love needs to come across as part of the first impression you deliver to any investor.

Entrepreneur 111

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. This section of the plan would include the definition of specific test processes, how results will be measured, and who has responsibility for execution and approval.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. 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.

Entrepreneur 162

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Registered patents and other intellectual property. By definition, entrepreneurs need to love the art of the start, and that love needs to come across as part of the first impression you deliver to any investor.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 126

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Definitely read the whole thing. Lots of thoughts here.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Definitely read the whole thing. Lots of thoughts here.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

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. The real challenge is to recognize when and why a new strategy is needed, and optimize the process against three critical success factors: A good understanding of the context of strategy definition.

Organization 88

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 88

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

It turned out, that was definitely the case, and that's how the company was created. We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We started doing residential installations, and then commercial installations. It's been an exciting two years.

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socalTECH

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. Everything was developed in-house at Idealab. Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Those are the three elements to our technology. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. This section of the plan would include the definition of specific test processes, how results will be measured, and who has responsibility for execution and approval.

Product 101

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Mike Neshat: We were just at Computex in Taiwan, and our pricing is definitely, significantly lower than front end modules, and even lower in cost than how you'd do this traditionally. Developing a chip has been very expensive--have prices gone down now, or how were you able to self-fund the effort? Mike Neshat: I'm broke now.

Patents 100

Patents Sample Technical Review Pricing 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. Crowd Seats came up first to give their two minute breakdown of the company.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

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. The real challenge is to recognize when and why a new strategy is needed, and optimize the process against three critical success factors: A good understanding of the context of strategy definition.

Organization 69

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 69

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. The real challenge is to recognize when and why a new strategy is needed, and optimize the process against three critical success factors: A good understanding of the context of strategy definition.

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Custom Customer Organization Course 102

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

It turned out, that was definitely the case, and that's how the company was created. We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We started doing residential installations, and then commercial installations. It's been an exciting two years.

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Startup Custom News Customer 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Registered patents and other intellectual property. By definition, entrepreneurs need to love the art of the start, and that love needs to come across as part of the first impression you deliver to any investor.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Angel Social Media Patents 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. This section of the plan would include the definition of specific test processes, how results will be measured, and who has responsibility for execution and approval.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

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. The real challenge is to recognize when and why a new strategy is needed, and optimize the process against three critical success factors: A good understanding of the context of strategy definition.

Organization 98

Organization Course Entrepreneur Patents 98

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2010

Software development company ACME AtronOmatic has just released iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch application named Bandana. Okay, I know this is a strange one but what this company has developed is really interesting and I can really see their method of use of the iPhone Bluetooth taking off. Bandana is officially dubbed "The Gaydar App".

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Social Network Patents Networking Software Development 83

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. 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.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Commerce Social Media 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee. Of course, you get the challenge of filing patents, developing a product, and defining the revenue model. You really just want to be the boss.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Course Patents 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Well, it’s true that HEAD request provoke only an HTTP response header.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2013

Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee. Of course, you get the challenge of filing patents, developing a product, and defining the revenue model. You really just want to be the boss.

Ideas 100

Ideas Startup Course Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous.

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Startup Invest CTO Hire CIO 97

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. It was definitely challenging to make something like that happen in an academic environment. So, we both turned down job offers to create a new kind of practice – we are true “advocates.”

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Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2011

Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee. Of course, you get the challenge of filing patents, developing a product, and defining the revenue model. You really just want to be the boss.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Course Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous.

Startup 90

Startup CTO Hire Cloud Computing CIO 90

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Ian Harris, VP of local Cleantech incubator believes ‘Cleantech’ is now more a political term than a technological definition. “Sustainability is about developing an investment focus around social economic benefits that occur from capital solutions. 2050 full utilization of local water.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2010

Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee. Of course, you get the challenge of filing patents, developing a product, and defining the revenue model. You really just want to be the boss.

Startup 48

Startup Course Entrepreneur Patents 48

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Understand the definition of an “At Will” employee. Recommended. Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

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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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs. 301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. When the server name is Ok, you should add some basic URI canonicalization routines here.

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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. The loyalties that develop during that time are strong and hard to break. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. And be generous. reasons to follow.

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