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MARCH 22, 2016

Los Angeles-based online electronics e-commerce giant Newegg said it is donating proceeds from a sale of T-shirts, to help defend what it says is a patent troll victim. Newegg said that Gwyther has been sued by Global Archery Products, which claims the arrows he is reselling infringe on its patents.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not yet been announced. Details on the funding have not yet been announced. AwarePoint develops real-time, location systems used for tracking patents and assets in a healthcare environment. READ MORE>>.

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Funding San Diego Patents Technology 113

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2013

The funding came from Fortress Investment Group. According to Netlist, it will use the new funding to support ongoing development of its product and patent portfolio. Both Netlist and Fortress said that the focus of the investment would be to bolster its intellectual property and patent assets, and capitalize on those patents.

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Patents Cloud Computing Activity Capital 147

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

in a Series A funding round, has been looking to develop an online marketplace for clean business deals. The firm also recently launched a patent exchange for cleantech related patents and technology. Steeb also has previously served at intel Corporation. OnGreen recently closed on $1.4M READ MORE>>.

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Patents Los Angeles Activity Technology 170

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. Even a patent search won’t uncover work in progress that may be well ahead of you in the business cycle. Investors look for technologies that can spawn a family of products, rolled out over time, for continuous innovation.

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Technical Review Funding Patents Ideas 156

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Here are some of the key ones: Patent protection in place as a barrier to entry. Investors understand that patents can be broken by unscrupulous competitors, but they prove your conviction that you have created something innovative, and are willing to do the work to defend it.

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Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Enterprise Partners is one of the firms in a $39M, Series E funding round for Mountain View-based Complete Genomics , Complete Genomics said today. Illumina and Solexa, the firm Illumina acquired on August 3rd, have sued Complete Genomics on patent infringement of three patents.

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Enterprise Partners Patents San Diego Venture Capital 154

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2010

Siimpel was founded in 2000, and had 42 employees, as well as a stable of 65 patents and patent applications.

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Arcadia Zone Ventures Draper Patents 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2013

JumpStartFund , which is based in El Segundo, opened up its service this morning to help use the wisdom of the crowd to move ideas, patents, and research from individuals, federal research labs, universities, and research organizations to the market. The site combines the crowd-voting aspect with crowd-funding elements, as well.

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Research El Segundo Incubator Startup 193

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation. Naïve expectations on funding terms and process. They are not interested in research and development, or funding at the idea stage. For seed stage funding, entrepreneurs should be looking to friends and family, crowd funding, and relevant institutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seed funding is the hardest to find.

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Software Review Funding Startup Seed Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs and occasional angel investor, I often see and hear innovative product pitches that sound exciting, but are missing one or more of the key business elements that investors deem critical for funding consideration. Patents are a good place for you to start.

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Funding Template Resource Competition 132

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made another investment in femtocell and picocell technology developer ip.access , as part of a new round of funding. Ip.access is using Qualcomm's technology, including its Femtocell Station Modem (FSM) chipsets and femtocell patents.

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San Diego Patents Equity Capital 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Remember that ideas cannot be patented, only novel implementations. Copyrights.

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Startup Patents IP Social Media 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. If the entrepreneur and team were that proven, they probably would be funding others rather than asking for money.

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Entrepreneur Funding Innocal Competition 108

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2010

San Diego-based Cibus Global , a developer of technology for engineering agricultural crops, has raised $1.16M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. The funding appears to be part of an ongoing, $2.6M fundraising by the firm.

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San Diego Patents Venture Capital Capital 140

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

San Diego-based Awarepoint , which develops real-time, location systems used for tracking patents and assets in a healthcare environment, said today that it has raised $14M in an additional financing round. HHIF will add a representative to Awarepoint's board with the funding. HHIF contributed $7.5M Awarepoint is headed by Jay Deady.

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Avalon San Diego Patents Invest 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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Venice Screening Patents Software 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Disclosing inventions before the patent application is filed. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Then they realize that they have talked to many people without signing non-disclosure statements, precluding a patent, or someone else has now beat them to the filing docket.

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Patents Legalzoom Invest Startup 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Obtaining a strong patent portfolio provides small businesses with the foundation needed to attract investors, secure early stage funding, and protect their creative ideas.CONNECT is pleased to host this timely Public Policy Forum focused on the proposed Three-Track Examination Process.

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Patents IP Startup Funding 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seed funding is the hardest to find.

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Seed Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Funding 100

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? Olloclip managed to fund and start the company based on crowdfunding, and is one of the most popular projects that has been funded through Kickstarter. Is it even possible, and what are the pitfalls involved? Patrick O'Neill: Not really.

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Patents Ideas Design Startup 191

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2011

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seed funding is the hardest to find.

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Software Review Funding Seed Funding Startup 98

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12B to get access to their 17,000 patents. Nortel sold its 6000 patents for $4.5B Even IBM (the #1 in US Patents) sold over 1000 of its patents recently. See how to fund a company with IP Funding, as an alternative to VC funding. See [link] (more)

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Technology Council IP TCOSC Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2013

The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. entrepreneur startup funding angel investors presentation business' Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation. Marty Zwilling.

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Angel Funding Slides Technical Review 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage.

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Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

Thus the real discussion must start with who will be doing the work, providing the funding, and delivering results. Key to required patents or trade secrets. In many cases, one of the co-founders may bring some work in progress that can be patented, trademarked, or copyrighted. Amount of venture funding provided.

Startup 174

Startup Equity Patents CTO Hire 174

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

.” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. We checked patents. If anything I’d like to fund 5 more teams and projects this ambitious. We checked safety.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. We talked about patents. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

The company has been funded entirely by grants from the National Institute of Health, amounting to millions of non-dilutive dollars in all. I am chairman of a company that, as I write this, is twelve years old and has not yet taken a dollar of outside investment.

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Company Companies Writing Education 166

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Tom O'Toole and Brandon Villery will cover issues on licensing, due diligence, NDA, different types of IP (trade secret, patent, trademark, copyright), etc. Steve Chen will present an overview of the patent process with a focus on IP issues related to the different types of ARRA funded vehicles, and some leads on patenting green technology.

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San Fernando Technical Review IP Southern California 100

socalTECH

JULY 26, 2021

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, SPINN, developing a fully automated, mobile- or voice-controlled coffee maker which grinds beans, heats water, and brews coffee for users, said on Monday that it has raised $20M in a funding round. The funding was led by Spark Capital, and also included Amazon's Alexa Fund, Bar 9 Ventures and others.

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Patents Los Angeles Mobile Funding 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Line up an experienced team. Marty Zwilling.

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Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89