Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. This is generally a straightforward and uncontested provision.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The Innovation Cohort is the hospital’s internal startup accelerator for physicians and other employees who have ideas for new products and services to improve healthcare. The program supports faculty, trainees and staff in transforming their ‘back of the envelope’ drawing into a final product or service ready for clinical use.

IP 70

IP Patents Ideas Research 70

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. We also have a Chinese partnership with Songcheng, where we will be building theme park-scale attractions, using Chinese IP, for their parks. We're building attractions that are VR-enabled. In the U.S.,

Entertainment 180

Entertainment Santa Monica IP Startup 180

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

A good example of that is Hero Cat, which blew up in two days to million and millions of views. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. My role has been around the product, and team building, and organization.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

The other thing we do is continue to invest in products and build really new, innovative technology in the markets we already serve. I'll give you an example, when we did wireless, it was very important to get wireless technology into company. But we also have to make sure we're competitive in our existing markets.

Acquisition 173

Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

This is a good example of the importance of learning how to thrive in a digital ecosystem. These drivers have become the destination for their spaces like Amazon with consumer products, Aetna with healthcare needs, and USAA for life events. – Add complementary and possibly competitor products.

Organization 91

Organization Customer Custom Study 91

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Is it one product line or multiple? For example, look at the following graph.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

For example, my dog eats two cans of dog food a day, if there are ten cans in the pantry, that means five days and he's out. Once you go in and make the purchase from us, then you set up your NetPlenishment on that product. So does this work for any consumer product? Dave Compton: Any consumable product.

Compton 138

Compton Ventura Startup IP 138

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based Netki (www.netki.com) is addressing that complexity, with a product called WalletNames, which replaces those long, complex, easy to confuse strings with easy to remember, domain-like text strings. What is Netki's product all about? So, it's critical to get that right.

Startup 100

Startup IP CTO Coach Allegis 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

An example of that, is I do a lot of running, and I did a video where I ran 100 miles over the month, and documented the process, and that inspired other people to do the same thing. You'd think because of the production value it would be the least watched video, but that's not true. For example, the MTV Video awards and Kanye West.

Startup 100

Startup Hollywood Content Examples 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

My group ran that organization, all of Cisco''s connected consumer products, or what is usually termed as devices connected to the Internet. You may not have heard of us, because we started in Europe with our products. What is your product all about? One, is the inability to have usable products. That''s a real problem.

Startup 202

Startup Platform Networking Services 202

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. billion views. think Apple.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

But if you’re the Director or Product or VP of Marketing – you don’t get to make that decision. There are many companies with phenomenal IP that is truly differentiated but where the original executive team squandered their opportunity due to inability to sell, market or service customers. ” (Warren Buffett).

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Bccthis just announced a version of their product which plugs into Gmail. Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. How long has Bccthis been around?

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. People will soon see you as an “expert” on solar power, as an example, so your later solar power offering will have credibility by default. Practice your message. Be unabashedly aggressive.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Newsletter Blogging 96

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Food is the perfect example. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. The customer is really struggling to regain their lost humanity.

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. People will soon see you as an “expert” on solar power, as an example, so your later solar power offering will have credibility by default. Practice your message. Be unabashedly aggressive.

Startup 92

Startup Writing Newsletter Blogging 92

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. Angels will largely take a product risk (they bet on the product or idea and your ability to build it). “A” The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea.

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Can you maybe give a concrete example of that? For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article. With things, for example, a camera or electronics, you can check the rating on Amazon.com. Back to the product, can you talk more about how voting works?

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. In fact, there are several types of valuations and they come into play at different times in a company’s lifecycle. What impacts a company’s 409A valuation: Company milestones.

IP 40

IP Equity Examples Guide 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg seems to be me to be one of the most talented young technology professionals of his generation and seems to have an amazing vision for technology and product. It amazes me how quickly a modest success story gets replicated and any initial product / market advantages get narrowed. Simple example. Another example.

Competition 296

Competition Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners 296

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. People will soon see you as an “expert” on solar power, as an example, so your later solar power offering will have credibility by default. Practice your message. Be unabashedly aggressive.

Startup 90

Startup Writing Newsletter Blogging 90

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. I’d like to give you some actual examples and also talk about the role they play. Legal threats from other IP holders? This is all about “leverage” which is the key to success.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

It also allows celebrities to talk to their fans, and offer them the opportunity purchase innovative, digital, personalized products like e-cards and invitiations. If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. That's more or less the key.

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price. Violent agreement.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Thanks to technology they can use IP camera hosting to have their systems all set up using cloud computing, and then activate them from their personal watches. Imagine a small-form device that can be coupled with glasses or even contact lenses (displays that fit on contact lenses are in the early stages of successful production).

Screening 40

Screening Cloud Computing IP Technology 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on. The roadmap for the product has us going back to New York to try to get our first install. Chandler Williamson: We're in the process of relaunching the product.

Design 138

Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Over the past few years the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created a flood of new gTLDs covering a wide variety of concepts, locations and products. For example, Harley Davidson now has to snap up “harleydavidson.motorcycles” in addition to harleydavidson.com.

Conference 77

Conference SEO Software Review IP 77