Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

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. Amazon attracts third-party sellers with tools and processes that make then all winners in the marketplace. Find funders who seek long-term returns.

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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 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

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. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist. First Prize: $3,000 –> o_O. Second Prize: $500. Third Prize: $250. Judges Prize: $250.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

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. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com).

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. There''s a lot of people looking to provide mobile ads to app developers. Why do developers use your tools? We were onboarding developers at GDC last week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

3D printing has been around for the past 30 years, however patents prevented others from advancing such technology. Now, those patents have finally dissolved and allowed a new wave of innovators to take advantage of the technology. Traditional manufacturing would subtract materials to create a product.

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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. 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

JULY 18, 2012

But, what she found was that not everyone has an editor's eye, and can use those video and video tools. Allison Dollar: It's taken quite a bit of development. We have our secret sauce in there, and we're figuring out if all of that is patent-able or not, and are jumping through the hoops to do all of that.

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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

APRIL 8, 2009

Brown was approached by a manufacturer, who asked if his technology could hold tools for an assembly line. At the time, I had a business finding technology that grew up in the entertainment business, and developing that technology for a larger market. Eric Golden: The first use is for holding tools for manufacturers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two. All are separate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Use Basic Tools – Budget, Cash Flow Forecast, and a good Accounting System. Two Basic Colors – Debt (borrow) and Equity (buy). 14 Sources of Money – From family, friends, and fools to being a public company. Plan can be used for both external (biz plan) and internal (budget) focuses.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s not a programming tool, even though it uses a lot of big data. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. We''re using state of the art tools. It''s designed for business people. It''s an easy to use, simple package, and not complicated. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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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. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. We refer to them as plastic solar panels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. I developed the first computer to save a human life. You see that little thing called "tool tips” where when you click on or move your cursor over a button a little window pops up and tells you what it does. And I've also been very lucky.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

According to Quipa, using a patented approach that’s more agile and secure than traditional VPN technologies, its QuipaLoop software segments a network into “loops” of trusted devices. More Agile & Secure Than Trad VPN technologies. Series A Round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Worked and lived abroad so that she could travel a lot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

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. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. When we do a deal with a game developer to do integration, and then do another deal, we have to do more integration, etc.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. However, when faced with a precarious bank account, successful ventures quickly develop and release a Minimally Viable Product , thereby avoiding an over-engineered solution. People are free or cheap because of the recession. Basically, everything is free.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

I'd really include things like the telephone busy signal, voicemail, or a lot of other different communications tools, all of which give the ability to provide information on what's going on at the other end of the channel. The sort of support mechanisms and networks in place really are about pharmaceuticals, biomedical, and patents.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Orange-based M86 Security , a developer of web security tools, said today that it has acquired Finjan , a developer of secure Web gateways. M86 will continue to maintain a development center and operations in Israel, merging Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center into M86 Security Labs. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. But also when you’re developing so is your competitor. We talked about patents. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&#

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. It's just an anti-phishing tool, so you can verify you are on their web site.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. Their tool helps structure and track the impact of the mentorship program. Canecto (Copenhaugen, Hovedenstad, Denmark). Seek (Lehi, UT).

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. The loyalties that develop during that time are strong and hard to break. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. And be generous. And be generous.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Developing a chip has been very expensive--have prices gone down now, or how were you able to self-fund the effort? Chip development costs have definitely not gone down. Good RF engineers, as you know, are quite expensive, plus you have to spend on tools, spend money on the fab for what you have. Mike Neshat: I'm broke now.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI RiJCFI 30 minutes ago.

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