socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

Southern California 140

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

Advertising 113

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We're all know that individuals love to express themselves, and we're allow them to share their thoughts, their feelings, and their emotions, utilizing the power of music all through a mobile communications platform. We have a massive music catalog, because we've enabled users to access their own, on-demand streaming services.

Tech Coast Angels 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2010

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding equity. This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to the founders, with normal vesting and other participation rules.

Startup 50

Startup Patents Entrepreneur Invest 50

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

I’m not suggesting that any startup needs to demand perfection, but I do recommend that all learn and follow common business practices from the beginning. This approach has tax implications you won’t like, since the IRS will tax your founder’s shares immediately at the valuation you give investors.

Startup 62

Startup Patents Entrepreneur Writing 62

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. billion in shares. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. Ron’s extensive industry experience, knowledge and relationships will be invaluable as CallFire builds both mind share and market share in the burgeoning cloud telephony services marketplace.”.

Venture Capital 89

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. However, you should seek a patent attorney when it is time to craft your patent application. Save money on your office furniture, not on your IP lawyer.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

In addition to personal focus, I find that the best entrepreneurs build and demand a culture of focus and excellence in their team, their investors, and even their advisors. Here are the key elements that I look for as an entrepreneur mentor, as indications of a top level of focus: Willing to share your personal story to build credibility.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Startup Patents Resource 126

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. He built & IPOd Demand Media. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. They want to see revenue to share in the return. and trademarks.

Product 169

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. 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.

Startup 175

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We started with some fundamental assumptions -- it shouldn't demand a Sun Sparc CPU, it should be able to run on an off-the-shelf server, it needed to be scalable, and it should have no inherent gotchas that would limit it in any way to less than millions of users and tens of millions of calls per day.

IP 165

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. Pre-existing intellectual property.

Startup 101

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

© Frank Addantes FounderBlog A sharing of experiences, tales and rants of the path leading up to and including my 6th startup company. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. It turned out that this drove even more demand for StrongMail.

Startup 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. Pre-existing intellectual property.

Equity 91

Equity Startup CTO Hire CTO Coach 91

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Posting tweet.

Social Media 41

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