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Should I license my IP, sell a royalty stream, or just produce products?

Berkonomics

These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. 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.

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Should I license my IP, sell a royalty stream, or just produce products?

Berkonomics

These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. 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.

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

socalTECH

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. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, ObEN

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Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Nikhil Jain: We actually are working on different use cases, in areas of entertainment, healthcare, and enterprise, and also in gaming, which is the reason a lot of these partners starting working with us. That was how it started out.

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Capturing Music, Life, and More With Vyclone, with David King Lassman

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The startup--which has the backing of such high profile investors as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Investments, Dreamworks, and Live Nation--also has some major partnership with entertainers like Madonna and No Doubt to create crowdsourced videos of their events. It looks like you have a number of entertainment partnerships already?

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

This is similar to the role that public markets play in helping shape publicly traded companies. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting. At times I’m sure it feels terrible to be a publicly traded company but ultimately I believe the sunshine of publicly reported numbers produces better results.

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