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.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

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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.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Maine Medical Center, Maine’s largest hospital, is investing in their employees and giving them a chance to act on their innovative ideas that could transform 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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." Banana IP. "Intellectual I explore this peculiar entrepreneurial career path in further detail in THIS entry.

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Tips Startup IP Santa Barbara 275

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Did they have the right skills?

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

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. Who is the idea customer for you? David Scult: Customer focus is one.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

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. I took the bait. If you want to learn from Andrew — he’s written a great post on what they’ve been up to.

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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 Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M

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Help IP Content Google 133

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. We're not yet talking about pricing and packages, but the idea is we'll have cheaper rates on prepaid and pay-as-you-go.

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Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. New product development process. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management.

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Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video. 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.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. New product development process. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management.

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Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

They claim that Mr. Zuckerberg “stole” their idea of creating a social network for the Harvard student community. The related question was: “ What should the Winklevoss twins have done to protect their idea?” Universal thought the key was Oswald (the idea), whereas Disney knew the key was in the execution of the cartoon.

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Writing Social Network Ideas Entrepreneur 150

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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter. The idea is that people may have reasons for being anonymous (e.g. In the rare instances where I get a troll I’m able to delete their comment and block them by email address or IP address. That may be. I’ve written about this topic before.

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Blogging Social Network Google Startup 287

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Adam Fridman, MSF from DePaul, 4 years investment banking and 10 years in business development consulting and start ups. Fridman came up with the idea after being approached by an intellectual property attorney at a networking event this past Fall. More: [link] com/in/adamfridman. What inspired them?

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Entrepreneur Startup Paramount Social Media 89

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Almost every idea worthy of funding has 5 amazing teams trying to do the same thing and execution and team determines the winners. You want to develop a “narrative” that holds the readers attention and helps shape the company into context. Compelling. Visually stunning (in this day and age this is becoming a sine qua non ).

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We have a lot of proprietary technology which we have developing with these phone numbers, including a way to identify attributes of a telephone number before our clients accept a particular user, for example, when someone is going to register with them. I got involved with Telesign when we had twelve people, and a super interesting idea.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. People are used to the idea to check their email when their attention dozes off, or do other things. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often. compatible; …&#.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. We ended up developing products for 120 carriers in 40 countries. So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up.

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Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. At 12.30pm in the afternoon the idea to create the video was hatched.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. New product development process. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Venture capitalists are evaluating you as much on your psychology as on your idea.

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Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. On this assertion, for the reasons that Paul articulates in his post, I’m aligned.

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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I know you want to live in a world in which you can just present your great ideas to a board, you’ll have great value-added discussions and the right answer will emerge.

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Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

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. Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. That’s what it feels like.”. All of my partners at Upfront do.

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Angel Startup Seed Funding Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

E3 brings out developers to show off their future games to the masses. When a handheld game is released simultaneously – or around the same time – as the console game, the handheld iteration is usually terrible thanks to the console version getting more of the development attention. It looks like Nintendo has a new IP up its sleeve.

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IP Startup Design Training 77

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. What we wanted to do, was focus on the high IP content, where there is a high barrier to entry. That's the core of our strategy.

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Networking Startup Software Tips 153

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. Internet scale.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

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Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In it, I cover some more general philosophical ideas about how to approach what to measure and what not to measure. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience.

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