socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. I was doing that until 1995.

Startup 252

Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

File a provisional patent or other intellectual property. Having a defensible barrier to entry is a clear advantage to attracting investors, and another element that cannot be added after your design is made public. Market research from credible third parties, such as Gartner Group, is also critical to success.

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Platform Equity Invest Technical Advisors 94

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. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Startup 108

Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

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. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. Sce and I met at Kyocera, where she was in UI design, and I brought her into Amp'd Mobile on UI design there.

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VentureNet Startup Mobile Technology Council 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

Netflix 54

Netflix Social Media Competition Custom 54

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property.

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

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. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. We have patents filed on this process.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

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. Picture the graphic designer, the IT expert, or the independent accountant or attorney. The Specialist entrepreneur will enter one industry and stick with it for 15 to 30 years.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

My background, is I''ve been designing and developing accessories for the top carriers in the country, companies like Sprint and Verizon, as well as others. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? Pretty much the top four carriers here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

RocksBox , a new discovery and sales channel for designer fashion jewelry. Their patented “ubiquitous data protocol” is designed to integrate multi-device awareness into the OS of all your devices, allowing users to think only about the screen that is most convenient.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s designed for business people. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. It''s not a programming tool, even though it uses a lot of big data.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Next was Mobile Web America ‘s ultra impressive display of their patent-pending web application that converts most websites into a mobile friendly format. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites. Bill received his B.S.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. We’re a social site and ultimately the public will tell us what our demographic is, but our expectation is that our audience will include everyone who loves to look at and share images.

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

For our readers who aren't familiar with Kadonk, what's the story behind the site? We were contemplating one of the problems we had all faced, which was when we designed a project, the issue was that it usually never got done on time. Dipanshu Sharma: All three of us wanted to be entrepreneurial, to have our own gig.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Our major designer was the number two guy on the Lucent 5E development program, so we understand how to design scalability into telecom apps, and scale seamlessly, better than our competitors. 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.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. George Ruan: Users who sign in to our site see three boxes. Those three boxes are categorized.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. They can then be incorporated into tents, bags, and clothing as part of a design. We're also continuing to look at capacity, adding capabilities to design and manufacture our production systems. We're also hiring.

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. with human interface design, you can't change everything at once. Those are built into the guitar.

Orange County 244

Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. Extract the real URI belonging to your site and serve the content instead of performing a redirect.

SEO 37

SEO IP Blogging PHP 37

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s startup scene so hot.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to do it the right way Here is what a site owner can expect from a Twitter app’s Web robot: A meaningful user agent A Web robot must provide a user agent name that fulfills at least these requirements: A unique string that identifies the bot. The web is broken by design and we cannot fix it anymore. Sad but true.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Sure, you need to take the proper precautions to protect your idea first (patents, copyrights, etc.), particularly with international patent laws. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. However, I say throw away the NDAs and get your ideas out there!

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

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. Even as Starting Point grew to be the 7th most popular site on the Internet (passing up Microsoft at #8), there were still a large number of skeptics.

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. SpaceX’s rockets and spacecraft were the first privately designed and built craft to put a satellite into Earth and dock with the International Space Station. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI And frankly, I’m okay with that.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

At L90 (Startup 3.0) , we were sued by DoubleClick on the eve of our IPO for alleged patent-infrindgement. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Sometimes I have had to trash what they produced, other times it became a major turning point in a companys growth. They tried to sue us in Virginia.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. Liquidation After developing one of the most popular sites on the Internet and inventing a technology platform that enabled companies to grow their user base and generate revenue through online advertising, I felt it was time to take these experiences to market on a much larger scale. Bootstrap 2. All-Star Team 4.

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Advertising Startup Technical Review Chief Technology Officer 40