Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Access to intellectual property and current research. Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front. Visit the university library for access to otherwise costly business reports.

Class 124

Class Startup Resource Mentor 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. Line up an experienced team. Define some intellectual property.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2012

Of course, the first one gets the patent. But patent disclosure requirements often make imitation easier, and smart technologists can work around most patents anyway. Market research is more meaningful if there is already a market and real customers. Of course, you still have to do your homework and market research.

Patents 84

Patents Startup Statistics Course 84

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. Twenty years ago, everybody in Boston knew he was. Then it got acquired by Millipore.

Startup 67

Startup Compton Research Technology 67

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Access to intellectual property and current research. Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front. Visit the university library for access to otherwise costly business reports.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Of course, the first one gets the patent. But patent disclosure requirements often make imitation easier, and smart technologists can work around most patents anyway. Market research is more meaningful if there is already a market and real customers. Of course, you still have to do your homework and market research.

Startup 91

Startup Patents Statistics Course 91

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Line up an experienced team.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

He ran DARPA research out of UC Irvine for almost a decade, until stepping out and focusing purely on entrepreneurial efforts. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Most of the equity investments in iHub companies are coming from outside the region. To achieve goals like bringing in bandwidth and pushing for a full service research university will require that a critical mass of the valley commits to set colloquialism aside and work for the greater good over a long period of time.

Startup 105

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 105

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Most of the equity investments in iHub companies are coming from outside the region. To achieve goals like bringing in bandwidth and pushing for a full service research university will require that a critical mass of the valley commits to set colloquialism aside and work for the greater good over a long period of time.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 119

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. Line up an experienced team. Define some intellectual property.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89