InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

IP Confusion – Questionable ownership of key intellectual property, including non-exclusive licenses, potential infringement of a third party’s technology and/or inappropriate use of open-source tools. As such, make it easy for investors to unequivocally evaluate the veracity of your venture's IP.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur IP RSS 264

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. If they think of our competitors, they think about an IP phone, a desktop phone.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. everything.

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Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. Our users are web develops, and technical people, who are the companies who are applying to TechStars, and who closely follow TechStars as a community.

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Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". Tech Law Tip of the Week: explanation of a frequently-asked IP law question for tech companies.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. What about if elderly people never had to ask a relative or healthcare worker to change the batteries on their hearing aids? We hired IP specialists to review prior art.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

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 What were some of the things you thought about before deciding to set up your headquarters in LA? from Moonshots.

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Help IP Content Google 133

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform.

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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.? You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

How do you go about trying to completely disrupt the entire telecom industry? If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Stephen Sesar: We've got unbelievable backers.

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Startup IP Networking Encino 245

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.? You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. Even if you came to an event in Santa Monica, it''s so far away from this part of town, you''re already thinking about the challenges of getting home and how long it will take you. What is Innovate Pasadena?

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. What is Jukin Media?

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Media Content Startup IP 235

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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IP Patents Ideas Research 70

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

We caught up with Shiraz to learn more about the company's origins from within Dreamworks Animation, and what it's hoping to bring to a location near you soon. About two and a half years ago, we spun out of Dreamworks. We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format.

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Entertainment Santa Monica IP Startup 180

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. “We understand how much money you can make from the IP. Its show, the Danogs, has 4.5

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Social Media Content Media Artificial Inteligence 261

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. How about $70? An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Dedicated to our Clients. Advertisers. See [link].

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Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

The most important thing to be careful about is to be sure WHY you’re doing the PS business. Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP. Only Work on Projects That Support Your Core Product Effort.

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Software Review Software Services Company 321

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

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?

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

But what about the privacy / confidentiality concern? I wrote more about “ why you should send the damn deck ” in a previous post and you should 100% send a deck and not send a link (read my post for why). You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. Compelling.

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Thats what uCast is all about. Kanaan Jemili:We have about six areas we focus on. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. Kanaan Jemili.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. It's a much smarter way of understanding shopping behavior, using data about human tastes to deliver recommendations to grocery consumers. We started Halla at that time, out of a classroom project, when we started thinking about businesses over Skype.

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Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

We sat down with Seriously CEO Andrew Stalbow --who previously had been GM North America for Rovio, and also was key to Fox''s content deals with Angry Birds--to hear more about the company, how it sees mobile games converging with Hollywood, and what it hopes to do with its first title, Best Fiends. They are super talented people there.

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Hollywood Mobile Content IP 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

We caught up with Vanessa Dawson , the CEO of The Vinetta Project, to learn more about the group and what it's doing with P&G Ventures. We have been in operation for about five yaers now, across North America, and operate a chapter model with local programming, across seven cities across the US and across Canada.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Los Angeles Help 124

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. With any startup, that's always something you think about.

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San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I’ve written before about my love for Disqus. They want to know about when my son scores a goal (ok, probably not) not when I’m debating somebody online about the future of social networks. And I am one of those who is concerns about Facebook overreach into the rest of my life. I want to stay independent.

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Blogging Social Network Google Startup 287

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. How about “agree” and “disagree” buttons? But I tape the shows.

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Startup Press Writing News 313

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

We caught up with co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Belinda Tan to learn more about the company. What we are doing has the potential to allow companies to develop more, novel treatments, for conditions, more effectively. Even if you do hear about a trial, most patients are just like you and me. What is Science37?

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Technology Study UCLA Research 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We thought we'd take a look at the trend, so we recently talked with Adorian Deck (https://www.youtube.com/user/AdorianDeck), an up and coming 22-year old Youtuber, who told us his story about how he's made Youtube his full time gig, and gives us some insight into the world of influencers and branded videos. It's a nice escape from reality.

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Startup Hollywood Content Examples 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I have started thinking about what the future might look like and I’ve started imagining what I call, “MMOV” or massive multiplayer online video. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We spoke with Greg Memo , the company''s CEO, and Nate Williams , the company''s CMO, about the company and its new funding. Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. What is your product all about? At Linksys, we had a problem.

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Startup Platform Networking Services 202

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2015

No one likes to talk about it, but the odds of an individual startup making it are pretty daunting. If you haven’t legally assigned the property rights to your company, you don’t own the IP even if your co-founder developed it while working on your business. Protect your IP : Patents are the gold standard.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup IP 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I love how open Danielle has been throughout the development of her startup Mattermark including honest reflections of when she has changed her opinion. I’ll give Sam Altman the last quote from the article , YCombinator also warns young entrepreneurs about taking on too much, too fast. “We That’s what it feels like.”.

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