Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? Now we have the infrastructure for innovators to create applications with open-source software – building innovations for mobile, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, blockchain and drones. Duell, U.S.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 156

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

How an entrepreneur answers this question speaks volumes about their knowledge of business realities, customers, confidence, and their ability to handle investor funding. If your early traction highlights an opportunity they have missed, they can mobilize their huge resources and run over you. Don’t bash the competition.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? Now we have the infrastructure for innovators to create applications with open source software – building innovations for mobile, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, blockchain and drones. Duell, U.S.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

How an entrepreneur answers this question speaks volumes about their knowledge of business realities, customers, confidence, and their ability to handle investor funding. If your early traction highlights an opportunity they have missed, they can mobilize their huge resources and run over you. Don’t bash the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

I find that some of the smartest entrepreneurs are the most reluctant to accept new realities, and unwisely keep charging down a road now leading in a new direction. Elon Musk offered his battery patents free to all takers in order to expand the electric car market, and provide a common infrastructure.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

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. My background has always been inventing products, and have several patents, and I have a passion for bringing new things to life, making partnerships, like the one with Sumitomo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

How an entrepreneur answers this question speaks volumes about their knowledge of business realities, customers, confidence, and their ability to handle investor funding. If your early traction highlights an opportunity they have missed, they can mobilize their huge resources and run over you. Don’t bash the competition.

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Competition Patents Resource Entrepreneur 51

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea. " Ummm.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In that same post Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret where he argues to make things open, he defines only one group of people that you may want to avoid having a conversation with: The handful of people in the world who might copy your idea are entrepreneurs just starting up with a very similar idea. " Ummm.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For instance, one of our targets are those who have large audiences, like mobile carriers. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Who are your core customers?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

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. My background has always been inventing products, and have several patents, and I have a passion for bringing new things to life, making partnerships, like the one with Sumitomo Electric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. Taking action to file even a provisional patent shows you have the conviction and skill to execute while others have no barrier to entry. Remember that investors invest in people more than the idea.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. tilofy location data science computer bigdata parsing filtering interview startup entrepreneur southern california' READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

UrRadio also gives you the technology to power your own radio station, and also includes some patented ways to monetize your channel that are not found elsewhere. unlike existing competitors, we are not playing advertisements or charging for mobile access. What''s the business model behind this? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Next was Mobile Web America ‘s ultra impressive display of their patent-pending web application that converts most websites into a mobile friendly format. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Rannala said being an entrepreneur is all about figuring things out, getting hands dirty and executing cheaply. GetMeRated , a mobile app where teens and twentysomethings find new friends through photos and chat. Smith said, “Part of being a good entrepreneur is being able to sell and being able to sell a vision.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Mobile accounts for 25% of their traffic. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. The trend is to more mobile and niche markets. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free. Intellectual property is tough.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. SuperDemo: Bill Gross. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. First, for those not familiar with CauseCast, what is the company all about? The way CauseCast helps do this, is through technology to help engage people around causes and campaigns.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. We wanted to create a mobile, digital device that spoke to all of these devices, and which was affordable.

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Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire technology likewise offers a powerful, cost-effective solution for emergency response and disaster preparedness, enabling authorities to mobilize field communications at a moment’s notice. Using CallFire, anyone with a cell phone and a laptop can become a virtual call center.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. Guest: interview with a special guest, ranging from world-reknowned business entrepreneurs to leaders in technology law and policy. Christina holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Another issue, was that once the product was designed, we would take our project plan, print it out, and put it on the wall, but inevitably when we were designing a new handset or a new feature for a mobile handset, someone would get sick, new tasks were added, and all that wouldn't get added to the plan.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Sustainability is comprised of the many facets of everyday industry: energy, water, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing methods, mobility, etc. As a Resident Entrepreneur at UCLA’s Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer, she spends her time on working on the investment side of new, emerging technologies.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson: It also uses your personal history, and other sources on your mobile client based on point-of-interest databases, plus your calendar. The sort of support mechanisms and networks in place really are about pharmaceuticals, biomedical, and patents. time survey, on what you might be doing at a moment in time.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Speak to entrepreneurs and leaders in your industry and consider asking them to be your mentor. Go mobile and consider app development. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. Recommended.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets.

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