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.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Registered patents and other intellectual property. Contrary to popular belief, most investors are not looking for entrepreneurs who are desperate for funding. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Registered patents and other intellectual property. Contrary to popular belief, most investors are not looking for entrepreneurs who are desperate for funding. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 126

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Professional investors look for the right people, more than the right product.

Startup 65

Startup Writing Patents Competition 65

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. I have been meaning to write this for a while as I’ve noticed that much of my board time is involved in trying to be an independent referee for founders who themselves are trying to resolve their own conflicts. Those seldom get reported.

Startup 217

Startup Technical Review Equity Report 217

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

No VC Fit - Match your venture with appropriate funding source. What does your pain reliever look like, how is it implemented by the customer and what future products do you expect to roll out? Patents and Trademarks. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? Distribution and Sales. Financials.

Venture Capital 211

Venture Capital Summary Technical Review Template 211

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. We checked patents. If anything I’d like to fund 5 more teams and projects this ambitious. When we ship product. ” **.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. That changed very quickly. Tempus Fugit.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO.

Startup 101

Startup Entrepreneur Equity CTO Hire 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. 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.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Registered patents and other intellectual property. Contrary to popular belief, most investors are not looking for entrepreneurs who are desperate for funding. Others send investors email and business plans in all uppercase or no punctuation.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Angel Social Media Patents 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. 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.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2013

If you don’t have it, you probably won’t succeed, even with funding. Here are some key ones they look for: Talks and writes well. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. The technology or product may be at an embryonic stage.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Course Patents 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO.

Equity 91

Equity Startup CTO Hire CTO Coach 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2012

If you don’t have it, you probably won’t succeed, even with funding. Here are some key ones they look for: Talks and writes well. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. The technology or product may be at an embryonic stage.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Technical Review Course Patents 117

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume. In reality, investors fund people, not ideas. Business model doesn’t make money. Inexperienced team.

Startup 100

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Most advisors will tell you to write the business plan first (20-30 pages), then distill the key points into a set of Microsoft PowerPoint slides for standup presentations to potential investors. Solution product & technology. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Exit strategy.

Slides 94

Slides Competition Sample Sales 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume. In reality, investors fund people, not ideas. Business model doesn’t make money. Inexperienced team.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Ideas Resource Statistics 109

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I was sitting on the board at LiveOffice, which was funded by Summit Partnres, and was just sold to Symantec two weeks ago. He called me and said--this is a company you might be interested in, maybe taking a board seat, or co-investing in, or helping them get funded. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Every investor expects to see some traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient. 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.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Mann had long sold the company and patents, but one of their providers which had been installing them surgically, and had started installing parts from China.

Startup 262

Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you don’t have it, you probably won’t succeed, even with funding. Here are some key ones they look for: Talks and writes well. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. The technology or product may be at an embryonic stage.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Angel Technical Review Course 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Have you patented it? Execution: Execution - the hard task of turning ideas into products that people will buy - is what separates successful entrepreneurs from dreamers. What is your plan for completing the development of your product and getting it ready to market? What does the product cost to manufacture?

Startup 91

Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Let's start with the products. Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. What does Confident Technologies do?

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&# Overture (Goto.com). Shopping.com.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. What we want to do is solve that problem, and build the first, live project and product collaboration tool. So we built this product, and we believe we're the first ones to have it in the market.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. anything.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Venture Capital Funding 7. I developed a technology product called DHARMA (stood for Dynamic Hybrid of Advertising and Response Management Applications).

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

When you feature a “product of the week&# , “hottest blog post&# , “today’s joke&# or so, then bookmarkers will love it when its URI doesn’t change. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. You should maintain a mapping table for all identified screwed URIs, pointing to the canonical URI.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37