socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2015

Laguna Beach-based NextVR , which is developing technology to capture 3D, broadcast-quality virtual reality, said today that it will be adding "light field" capture technology to its platform. NextVR said the technology might allow, for example, looking behind a referee in a sports game to see the players behind that referee.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. The average time required to obtain a patent is 36-to-40 months, during which there is no guarantee your adVenture will ultimately receive patent protection. Even if you are granted a patent, the scope of your claims may be significantly denuded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” Patents and trade secrets are more powerful advantages than missing competitive features, which might be quickly filled in as you gain traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2021

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. You can only lead by example, and set equally high standards for the people around you. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” No entrepreneur is born with these skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. For example, I do business mentoring at nearby Arizona State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Initiate networking to find peer partners and investors.

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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. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

For example, if you see starting a business as a get-rich-quick solution, or you are trying to escape having a boss, or hate taking risks, you probably don’t need the stress of writing and trying to sell a business plan to tell you to seek other alternatives. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2020

For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” Patents and trade secrets are more powerful advantages than missing competitive features, which might be quickly filled in as you gain traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

As an example of a good resource, I enjoyed the classic book, “ Idea To Invention ,” by Patricia Nolan-Brown, that does a great job on the key steps. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Start by developing an “elevator pitch” that you can deliver in 30 seconds to hook a potential investor.

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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. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early. Not everything will work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

For example, if someone is browsing a clip, they can see the origin of that, if it's a movie, and that can be linked to a DVD, or merchandise, or a T-shirt. Allison Dollar: An example would be studios, which have a franchise of feature films. Allison Dollar: It's taken quite a bit of development. Why would brands would use this?

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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. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process. Our current customers and users had a very high desire to make it available, and so we developed the company to deliver the product. Zare'' Baghdasarian: That''s the precise issue we address with our patents. You can''t do it in real time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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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.? Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? Lots of thoughts here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. I was doing that until 1995.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. An example of that is the UCLA flood. Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information.

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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.? Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? Lots of thoughts here.

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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. A hint on the rendering engine used, for example “Mozilla/5.0

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

By way of example, our access point looks like a Wi-Fi router, but it has a coverage zone of 200 miles, depending on the obstructions that are in the way. For example, you can but this next to a WiFi router and you wouldn''t see any interference from that. Kevin Hell: Essentially, we connect the internet of things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff. That wasn’t even possible a few years ago.

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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. Ryan Scott: Originally, we started with consumer facing content.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear. This is a really good example of why we sell to utilities. megawatts of energy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

For example, “While product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides cloud support to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” Patents and trade secrets are more powerful advantages than missing competitive features, which might be quickly filled in as you gain traction.

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