Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups. Questions of IP. A common question Monti receives is who would own the intellectual property rights if an employee develops a new product or service at the accelerator.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. We also have a Chinese partnership with Songcheng, where we will be building theme park-scale attractions, using Chinese IP, for their parks. We're building attractions that are VR-enabled. In the U.S.,

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Entertainment Santa Monica IP Startup 180

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.? The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? False Confidence.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

More than 80 percent of the IP out of those institutions gets licensed, but less than 20 percent of that goes into startups. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation.

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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.? The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? False Confidence.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

A good example of that is Hero Cat, which blew up in two days to million and millions of views. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. How did this go from content on a channel to a company?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. In New York, for example, there are a lot of very strong fintech, fashion technology and media companies. Vanessa Dawson: Networking and relationship development really is key.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

An example of that, is I do a lot of running, and I did a video where I ran 100 miles over the month, and documented the process, and that inspired other people to do the same thing. I can tell you that my goal is to develop the most depth I can with an audience of 100,000, instead of 10 million people. I just started doing this.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. For example, look at the following graph. For example, if you sell your product through a third-party reseller who charges 30% of any sale then your COGS will be 30% of revenue (assuming no other costs of sales).

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm.

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). The reason I have generally been against convertible debt is that historically it was a mechanism that avoided price.

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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. We ended up developing products for 120 carriers in 40 countries. I was one of the early folks there that came on and was there as the company grew.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. And the show develops like this. From Wikipedia on Charles Dickens.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. The products being developed have been so hard to use, the average consumer couldn''t put it together. What''s your background, and what were you doing before Greenwave? That''s a real problem.

Startup 202

Startup Platform Networking Services 202

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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IP Patents Company Companies 256

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. A good example of that is Ceph. What does MetaCloud do? Sean Lynch: What we do, in a nutshell, is provide private cloud as a service.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson: It took a long time to converge on what we were actually doing, and we started on a path of developing stuff, working with interaction designers, and forcing ourselves to identify what service we were really trying to provide. We started working in that direction, and here we are two years later.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. I developed an interest and specialty in software-as-a-service as an angel investors, and as an advisor to companies you've come across in Southern California.

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I’d like to give you some actual examples and also talk about the role they play. Legal threats from other IP holders? You really want to spend your time on that?

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? Make sure you own your IP. But for the sake of my example – say 20%. Not worth it. Assemble a team.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Food is the perfect example. What we set out to do was develop something that we could use to solve that problem for ourselves, using personalized recommendation technology for food. Spencer Price: I think we've already touched on one, which is we're young guys, which might make it difficult in sales and business development.

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. You might, for example, hold events in the rough key/value form: user_id, event_name, value, datetime. Make sense?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on. They're kind of risk-adverse and conservative, and a little slower to respond to new developments.

Design 138

Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). Think about me as an example. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

We've developed a very advanced, voice-over-IP telephony network, which allows outside travel agents to do all of our customer service on commissions, which keeps our fixed costs down, and allows us to scale to thousands of inquiries a day. I developed one of the first booking engines for Sabre's web reservation system, in 1996.

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Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

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. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

He points specifically to 1995, two decades ago, when consoles ruled the world and PC games were a tiny subset; but as we’ve seen the many faces of the gaming industry develop, we’re now looking at the wild success of virtual crystals, flight-indept birds; a world where free to play + micro-transaction models sit front and center.

Mobile 93

Mobile Platform Technology Screening 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The iPhone is a great example of simplicity and clarity. We’re not looking for business development people, we’re looking for product guys. An ideal team would be a CEO and 4-5 developers. If you’re not a developer, find someone who is. A simple idea also allows for clarity. What do you look for in a team? (0:34:00).

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 crawl.baidu.com";}. to 65.55.255.255 (131.107.0.0

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SEO IP PHP Blogging 37