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. Three years is a lifetime at a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. VC is a long-term business Some businesses are overnight successes but few of them really move immediately up and to the right. We have invested in every round and as a result our ownership has actually gone up over time.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M The startup--led by Patrick Ip--develops software to automate the creation of custom visual content for brands. in a seed funding round.

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Artificial Inteligence Software IP Seed Funding 127

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Like Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison, he is one of the few startup Founders who remained at the helm of their respective companies throughout their entire maturation process. Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At One Of The Most Important Startup Skills. "The " [Tweet this quote].

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

As you might imagine, when you go to the page on Customer Development , you find the best and the latest content from people like Steve Blank and Vinicius Vacanti. Or looking at issues around Founders you find the great post from Ben Yoskovitz on Founder DNA – How Investors Evaluate Startup Founders.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2020

Los ANgeles-based Brainbase , a new startup developing software to help manage licensing, partnership and sponsorship agreements, has raised $8M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The software is aimed at brands who own and license their IP. The company's co-founder and CEO is Nate Cavanaugh.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. What makes up revenue?

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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. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

What could you learn from looking at your competitors or other tech startups in a different way? Or you think their startup is a passing fad and yours is the real deal? I was at a dinner about a year ago with a few VCs and startup founders. The topic of FourSquare came up. I hear views like this all the time.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

How do research and development teams create new products. But with corporations and mom-and-pop players alike wanting to get in on that “green rush”— valued at $146.4 billion globally by 2025 and $25 billion in the U.S. alone—how does an innovator protect intellectual property in a quasi-legal industry?

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. What is Jukin Media? Can you talk about those businesses?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In many instances, investors simply do not have the patience to wait for an entrepreneur to sufficiently clean up their deal once a significant issue is identified during the due diligence process. As such, make it easy for investors to unequivocally evaluate the veracity of your venture's IP.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Startups Made Simple. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.

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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. Many angels may also not know the exact health of the start-up they have invested in when asked by others, which can give the perception that the company is not doing well.”

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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. It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. The thesis is, we need collaboration, ideas, and IP, and to translate that into innovation. I got a resounding yes.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2014

You don’t need many “bells and whistles” at this stage in the game, but you do want to set up a system that is easy-to-use and that is built to grow with you. Set up an accounts payable system. Ideally you’ll want to establish your credit guidelines, policies, and collection timeline before you start collecting your first payments.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

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. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

I met Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto from Seriously several years ago after they had just left Angry Birds where they were responsible for international business development / licensing and the game studio, respectively. It started with a series of books and is now a multi-billion dollar franchise with products, theme parks and games.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

You don’t need many “bells and whistles” at this stage in the game, but you do want to set up a system that is easy-to-use and that is built to grow with you. Set up an accounts payable system. Ideally you’ll want to establish your credit guidelines, policies, and collection timeline before you start collecting your first payments.

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Tips Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 90

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. We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. About two and a half years ago, we spun out of Dreamworks.

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Entertainment Santa Monica IP Startup 180

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

I often write about the best strategies for startup fundraising or how to manage startup financing and optimize for growth. Equally important, is an area many startup founders don’t always prioritize: choosing the right service providers and understanding the value they can bring, especially to early-stage startups.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based GOGII , the text messaging app developer behind textPlus , said Tuesday that it has started offering up free phone numbers for texting in Canada. The new Canadian phone support comes as part of a partnership with Iristel, a voice-over-IP operator operating in Canada.

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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 started doing cartoon live streams and the founders of Musical.ly

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

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. How did you start company? We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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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. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. The more we dug the more confident we became (and so did every advisor we used). Were they ambitious?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder. Not worth it.

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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.". The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas. Please follow him & welcome him to Upfront!! <== And reset they must.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of growth that is required to get to positive cash flow. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Startups Made Simple. 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. Middle Market Investment Banking. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Advertisers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start.

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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. Startup Killers. This might be tough to stomach, but founders themselves pose the greatest threats to the viability of their startups. Protect your IP : Patents are the gold standard. Choosing the wrong co-founder (s).

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The Innovation Cohort is the hospital’s internal startup accelerator for physicians and other employees who have ideas for new products and services to improve healthcare. They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups.

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