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10 Key Business Founder Checks Needed Before The Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

You need intellectual property , such as a patent, trade secret, or process expertise that will be a barrier that you can defend. More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts. Assess your connections, both social media and financial.

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Language Weaver's Mark Tapling On Growth, Exits

socalTECH

We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale. Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers.

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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. This brand exposure helped Google establish “www.google.com” as a leading destination site. You should also specify the minimum font size in each medium your brand will be displayed.

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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. This brand exposure helped Google establish “www.google.com” as a leading destination site. You should also specify the minimum font size in each medium your brand will be displayed.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Instead, we do this for about a $1000 for a site, in HD quality, supporting eight to 10 participants on a 48- or 52-inch screen. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI RiJCFI 30 minutes ago.

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

socalTECH

About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. We identified several consumer applications, which were based on a large area, had a low demand for electricity, and where we could be competitive. Our company was privately funded by our partners. We're also hiring.

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