Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Here are some real cases: Dear StartupPro, I am a minority looking for funding for a Home HealthCare Service business. It has been hard in my years of searching for funds. I am a young senior educated in Business Administration, with more than 15 years in the HealthCare and Financial Service business.

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Entrepreneur Education Equity IP 75

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

Rincon’s Fund I portfolio is comprised of a number of such Serial Teams, some of which include: Alma mater, Rent.com: sold to eBay for $430 million. After nailing lead generation in the apartment listing space, they are now killing it with respect to lead generation for higher and career education. Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO.

Startup 150

Startup IP Entrepreneur Software Review 150

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

OrthoWorx has established several initiatives on education and workforce development, innovation and entrepreneurship, branding and awareness, and community enhancement to strengthen the area’s abilities to grow the orthopedic sector as well as promote its stature in the global market.

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? We have some very good competitors--EchoSign and DocuSign are the two bigs ones, and are both venture funded--who have spent a lot of money educating the market. Daryl Bernstein: We think we've kind of hit a sweet spot. and the E.U.,

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, follow the guidelines outlined in IP – Worthless To A Startup and only spend significant time and effort protecting your intellectual property when it is clear what you are trying to protect. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. Explain your technology?

Advertising 113

Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I angel funded a company 5 years ago. Because no VCs would fund them with a pending lawsuit of this nature. I funded a company where the CEO stepped down. I funded a US company that bought a URL and a brand name and filed for a trademark. Lawsuits are on the rise. They won two big national contracts. He sued anyways.

Startup 150

Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com" Sad but true.

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41