InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

In 1952, 100 years after Lovelace’s death, Dr. Grace Hopper developed the first compiler. It wasn't until the early 1960's, when men realized the power and prestige associated with software development, that women were not so subtly pushed out of the profession.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But only recently did I read a clear document on the risks and rewards of patent strategy. Thanks to Russ Krajec, a patent attorney, for the quick improvement in my education, here are some important points to consider when thinking of your patent strategy. What is the true cost of patenting an idea? And private.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We were fortunate to be approached to provide mobile EV charging for Jaguar, and have developed that solution, and it's now a big part of our business. 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. Although people generally associate AR and Vr with gaming, we're actually growing into a lot of other areas, like healthcare, education, and the enterprise. That was how it started out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. People need to be influenced and educated to change consumption habits, expectations, and buying patterns. The leading edge was too often the bleeding edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2013

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Business risks are not just development risks. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Value creation. Accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We were fortunate to be approached to provide mobile EV charging for Jaguar, and have developed that solution, and it's now a big part of our business. It's been an exciting two years.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. That's on the cause marketing side of things.

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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. On my side, the time and money wasted with the idea to educate people is immense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. You need patents and trademarks as a barrier to entry. Confidently believe that you have no real competitors. Innovation in the face of a few competitors is much less risky.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. It basically helped invent the ultra-filtration field. Then it got acquired by Millipore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. I developed the first computer to save a human life. Marty: Which do you enjoy most - the entrepreneur role, author, or speaker/educator? I just got my most recent patent about a week ago, on three-dimensional Internet advertising! That's mine.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

To make sure your IP is protected — As I’ve written before, failing to develop an IP strategy, including a plan for protecting your IP as well as avoiding unwitting infringements of someone else’s, is a huge mistake. And relying on NDAs is not the answer.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Victory usually satisfies, but it seldom educates. However, when faced with a precarious bank account, successful ventures quickly develop and release a Minimally Viable Product , thereby avoiding an over-engineered solution. “You can learn very little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.”. Christy was correct.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. We have patents filed on this process. For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life. But, it didn't seem scalable. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. There is no right answer many times, just gut instincts and educated guesses. Founded by L.A.’s Blayze gives YouTube channel owners insight into their audience segments.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. But how do you convince millions of people that need to be educated that they have a document management problems to upload their documents in the first place? Page 3: Competition. Page 4: Business Model. Page 5: Financials.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. But also when you’re developing so is your competitor.

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