Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

Yet I believe it is possible, and even more fun, to challenge your thinking and practices, to develop that innovative mindset that can keep you on the forefront of business. Develop a welcoming mindset for new trends and change. Develop strategic partnerships with key industry players. Always practice thinking outside the box.

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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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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. 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.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2023

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In communication to all, focus on your experience and determination to deliver results, no matter what the challenges. Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market. We are looking for people who can lead a team and turn any idea into a business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

What is JumpStartFund? It''s a place where people can submit their ideas and patents, and we provide a platform for them to try to find entrepreneurs who would like to work on those patents together with us an the crowd. They can then join the team, and work with the crowd to further develop the idea.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

What is EV Safe? We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We were fortunate to be approached to provide mobile EV charging for Jaguar, and have developed that solution, and it's now a big part of our business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2020

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

They need to know how much money you need, and what portion of the current business you are willing to offer for the investment. Solution development undefined or incomplete. They are not interested in research and development, or funding at the idea stage. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I had back-to-backs all week and that’s what it’s like when you squeeze in a last-minute meeting. What about if elderly people never had to ask a relative or healthcare worker to change the batteries on their hearing aids? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? No brainer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?  What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. Contact our editors for details. Find opportunity in chaos.

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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. What is The Vinetta Project? What are you doing with this recently announcement with P&G Ventures, and how does that work? P&g spends billions on women-owned businesses in the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As an entrepreneur or a business owner, confirmation bias actually allows you to hear what you want to hear in feedback from customers, even though they may be telling you something totally different. Unfortunately, even today many engineers and product developers believe that marketing is just for advertisements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

Start with what you know, but think outside the box. 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. Now get real (cook it). Before you get too excited, it’s time to do some homework.

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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.

Startup 124

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

A product plan has tremendous value inward facing, telling your product people what to build, while the business plan has maximum value outward facing, explaining to the rest of the world how your new company will survive and prosper. Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan is never a substitute for a business plan.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

Is it even possible, and what are the pitfalls involved? 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. First of all, tell us about what olloclip's products are? Patrick O'Neill.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

What does Ocular Data Systems do? Dick made it his life's mission to learn how to detect drug-impaired driving, which led to what is now the an international drug evaluation and classification program, the Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) program. That program is the core basis of what we do. and Dick is DRE Emeritus.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

There’s a lot of mystique about what happens at board meetings and a lot of imagined board-room drama. The image of boards and of investors vs. founder conflicts has been so at odds with my experiences on dozens of boards over the past 20 years that I thought it was worth sharing what I actually see. That’s true.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Los Angeles startup-- ArmorWay (www.armorwaycom)--is trying to take what has mostly been an esoteric computer science research area, and is now looking to make it applicable in real life. Tell us what ArmorWay''s software is all about, and what it''s used for? Zare'' Baghdasarian: There was a b ig need in the domain.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others? We spoke with Allison Dollar, Chief Strategy Officer at the company and member of the founding team, about what the company's service is all about. What is the SnapCuts service? What kind of clips can people access?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. Patents and trademarks are very valuable in attracting investors for scaling, as well as future premium buyouts. Marketing should start before product development. A business plan is for you first, not investors.

Startup 124

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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. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security that what worked yesterday will work tomorrow. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

Competition 142

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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.? What is Stealth? " What can I say. You decide what you will convey in those conversations (and what you will not).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

What is EV Safe Charge? We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We were fortunate to be approached to provide mobile EV charging for Jaguar, and have developed that solution, and it's now a big part of our business.

Startup 133

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? What companies are looking for, and what they care about, are material events. What''s your background, and how did you get into this? I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. It''s all done through your browser.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

They need to know how much money you need, and what portion of the current business you are willing to offer for the investment. Solution development undefined or incomplete. They are not interested in research and development, or funding at the idea stage. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation.

Funding 123

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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.? What is Stealth? " What can I say. You decide what you will convey in those conversations (and what you will not).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

What if you could�with your smartphone�easily create a virtual you�an avatar that looks and sounds like you, and which would live in virtual or augmented reality? 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. Entertainment Co.,

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

We sat down with Forsblom to learn more about what he learned from his experience in Finland, and what he's hoping to do here. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. What happened there?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We know you've been doing well as a company, but surprisingly, not many people seen to be aware of what you are up to. For those folks, can you describe what TeleSign does? What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. Steve Jillings: We have been doing super well.

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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? What is Tilofy about? Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. Patents and trademarks are very valuable in attracting investors for scaling, as well as future premium buyouts. Marketing should start before product development. A business plan is for you first, not investors.

Startup 174

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Ideas 174

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? What is uCast? What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. Thats what uCast is all about.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

Remember the the Star Trek Tricorder--that handheld, sci-fi device which could be waved over someone and instantly figure out what was wrong with their health? What is the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize? What functions does the device need to have? Talk about your team, what''s your expertise in this area?

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