Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. What are the advantages of using royalties instead of raising investor funds, other than no dilution of equity? Does the average agreement call for advance payment of royalties?

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IP Product Equity Tool 120

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.

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Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. Consider both the money you need before funding, and the size of investor funding requests. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. You should buffer the first by 50%, and the second by 25%.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

The industry has been amazing in developing standards about how to communicate between a car and charger and how to handshake between them for safety, so we end up explaining that and doing a fair amount of education to let people know about that. What were you doing before this? It's very exciting to me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2013

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. I find that startups looking for funding often never even think of asking strategic partners, rather than just venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. I find that startups looking for funding often never even think of asking strategic partners, rather than just venture capitalists.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Patents Training 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology. Truly disruptive technologies are tough, since it always takes extra time and money to educate and motivate the customers to move away from current approaches.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co., 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.

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Idealab Artificial Inteligence Startup Ideas 173

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. Consider both the money you need before funding, and the size of investor funding requests. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. You should buffer the first by 50%, and the second by 25%.

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Mentor Startup Social Network Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. Consider both the money you need before funding, and the size of investor funding requests. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. You should buffer the first by 50%, and the second by 25%.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Social Network Startup Patents 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

In fact, investors recognize that founders usually learn more from mistakes than from success, so a well-explained startup failure can improve their odds of funding the next time around. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget.

Startup 59

Startup Training Entrepreneur Customer 59

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

The industry has been amazing in developing standards about how to communicate between a car and charger and how to handshake between them for safety, so we end up explaining that and doing a fair amount of education to let people know about that. What were you doing before this? It's very exciting to me.

Startup 133

Startup Customer Custom News 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2010

I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. Consider both the money you need before funding, and the size of investor funding requests. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. You should buffer the first by 50%, and the second by 25%.

Guide 92

Guide Startup Social Network Patents 92

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Whether it’s something as extensive as filing patents, more simple trademark registrations, and or putting appropriate documentation in place, don’t ignore this and don’t rely on boilerplate online templates. And relying on NDAs is not the answer. Accounting and Finance Support.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire powers voice and text messaging applications that enable businesses, government agencies and grassroots organizations to instantly and affordably communicate with key audiences.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. The second thing is the stuff we have been doing--education, networking, and connections--and getting that primordial soup stirred up and catalyzed. Orange County is also pretty rich in intellectual horsepower.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Our wide-ranging conversation covered the progression of MIT’s entrepreneurship curriculum and campus resources , the rise of the Boston-Cambridge area as a high-tech industry powerhouse, the prospects for an MIT venture fund , the challenges for university tech transfer offices, the roots of today’s startup culture, and more.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greater constraint investors place on their financial resources during a downturn, the better your chances of success, given (of course) that your adVenture is able to either secure funding or generate adequate revenue from customers, as described below in reason #7 – Customer Dollars Taste Great.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The 3-6 month program had several hundred applications from all over the country and abroad vying for the chance of $21,000 in initial funding, office space, mentorship, and collaboration opportunities with other startups. There is no right answer many times, just gut instincts and educated guesses.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). So for anybody who has been through the funding process before I hope that this will resonate and for those that haven’t I hope it will be interesting. Tempus Fugit. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. We talked about patents. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. He is the founder of Benson Backpacks , a company that sells backpacks and supports children’s educations in Tanzania with each purchase. Ryan Born – Founder of AudioMicro.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Yet only a few of these get funded, and even fewer become dominant players in their chosen space. Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world.

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Netflix Social Media Competition Customer 54

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

On my side, the time and money wasted with the idea to educate people is immense. UFA Widows and Childrens Fund The Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York distributes donations directly to the families of fallen firefighters. I love to sell the knowledge to my clients but ranting in blogs is somehow useless.

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