Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort. Intellectual property is required for a competitive edge. Survival requires regular updates.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Now Zweig is back again… this time pitching app developers a tool that can help convert browsers into buyers for new applications in app stores around the world.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup developing a system to deliver electronic communications to people using just their postal address, has been sued by Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes said Tuesday that Zumbox's system infringes on the firm's patents. Tags: zumbox pitney bowes legal lawsuit patent. READ MORE>>.

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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. That technology was first brought to market by camera maker Lytro.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. Ali Khoshgozaran: Tilofy comes from location and unify.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service. Third: Management risk. . And fifth: Competitive risk. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Patents and trademarks are very valuable in attracting investors for scaling, as well as future premium buyouts. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible. Marketing should start before product development. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service. Third: Management risk. . A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This classy, yet highly functional watch is unique in that it includes a water proof stainless steel face casing, metal band with rubber inserts, Qi battery, patented wireless docking station, patented app portal, Rockin 9 notifications, plus 1.54” HD screen and is powered by the Android 4.2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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. Another partnering model example 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 19, 2015

If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology. Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Patents and trademarks are very valuable in attracting investors for scaling, as well as future premium buyouts. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible. Marketing should start before product development. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

As you think and explore and imagine the possibilities for new products, remember that it should have a broad opportunity, appeal to people who have money to buy, and needs to have pizzazz to get people’s attention in this age of information overload. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Your Software Development Partner. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Gemini Partners (www.geminipartners.net).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Your Software Development Partner. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

The dealer didn't have much information or knowledge on how to get a charger installed, or where to go and find an electrician, and I figured that others also were experiencing this as well. We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service. Email readers, continue here.] Third: Management risk. And fifth: Competitive risk.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

To learn a bit more, we sat down with Patrick O'Neill , the founder of olloclip (www.olloclip.com), the developer of a popular iPhone accessory, a lens which fits directly on your iPhone. I had probably spent eight months perfecting the product, and getting the design where it needed to be, and all patents filed. Patrick O'Neill.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com).

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JUNE 26, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. Key Information Systems ([link]. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. Dedicated to our Clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Your Software Development Partner. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, who plans, develops, and implements marketing programs designed to increase product penetration of commercial customers. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Think Glendale.

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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

All those years of hard work to reach the promised land, then just as a drug owner is ready to spike it home and take a victory lap, the FDA’s hands rise over the net… OK, it’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s better than comparing the patent fight over the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to table tennis. (Be

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, who plans, develops, and implements marketing programs designed to increase product penetration of commercial customers. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore (www.bitvore.com) has created a system which takes thousands of sources of data, and extracts intelligence out of it to create actionable information out of that vast stream of real time data. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. That was a very successful exit for everyone involved.

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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. Traditionally, to create the types of avatars we are creating, you'd have to go into a studio and scanning booth, and scan in your information to make that avatar. READ MORE>>.

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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. Vanessa Dawson: Networking and relationship development really is key. They are particularly interested in working with Vinetta, because of our history of helping female founded companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh focuses on the medical information technology markets. Maneesh has more than nine years of product development and operational experience in the high tech industry. At Broadcom, he was instrumental and led efforts in the development and evolution of the cable, satellite, and television chip sets. Amir Banifatemi.

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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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