socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2019

We expect our products to be ready in mid-2020, and are targeting the flat solar cell market. That also is a strength for us, because it's very hard to reverse engineer, and you have a very strong IP portfolio. Thomas Russell: We're an early stage company, and we have R&D tools and R&D products currently available.

CalTech 113

CalTech Outsource Development IP Marketing 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

And by the way, if you don’t manufacture any of your candy bars yourself you are merely a middleman packaging up somebody else’s product and taking a vig on helping get customer distribution. But we’re a technology company that produces great video not the other way around. Sound interesting? Back to video.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Custom 366

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. We were a great services business.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. How are you able to do all this? It's a continuing conversation.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I argued it in my post on how social proof helps fund raising with angel investors. But that’s what great angels do. With sufficiently lightweight standardized equity terms (and some changes in investors’ and lawyers’ expectations about equity rounds) you might be able to do the same thing with equity instead of debt.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. There are plenty of great leaders who work really hard and work for big companies.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

I am reminded of this problem every time my firm does a financing where a note went before us but more specifically I was reminded by this great post by Brad Feld to talk about the pre-money vs. post-money conversion issue. It’s worth reading his post to understand the problem. I can boil it down to how this tension plays out.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. You found the team behind TeleSign, and have helped bring together a team to scale out the business. There is no question, that this has absolutely, far exceeded any expectations of the company and opportunity.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. I see this emerging in Seattle and the passion of “a few key individuals&# who can help shift the game.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

If you invited me into a round in which you invested $2 million and I wrote a $50,000 angel check along with 5 others, my expectation is that if things aren’t working well you – the lead- own the responsibility for working most closely with the founders to help fix it. Every great investor knows this.

Angel 150

Angel Startup Seed Funding Invest 150

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Working with startup lawyers also minimizes the risk of losing control of your adVenture, as they can help you avoid common fundraising and investor pitfalls. In addition, such an arrangement will further cement your lawyer’s incentive to help you succeed. This will allow you to defer a portion of your of up-front legal costs.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. However, it is my hope that this article will help you avoid learning the following lessons the hard way. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. The iPhone is a great example of simplicity and clarity. Macro trends (0:57:00).

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !==

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. For the sake of a common denominator, I encourage you to perform a tiny real-world experiment: Publish a great and linkworthy piece of content. Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl. URI ≤ 139 characters!)

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41