Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Digging through your IP closet for gold…. Finding connections with a fresh set of eyes. Since I have been involved at the board level with so many companies over the years, sometimes I can see connections that might be missed by a CEO with a singular focus.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

. “ We will be bringing in founders in residence who will come in without an idea,” Barber said of the program. “We’re starting with a blank sheet of paper and building teams in partnership with entrepreneurs and in partnership with corporate partners who will bring their perspective and their IP.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

Under the agreement, Impact will identify and develop film ideas in four specific genres over the next year that they will then bring to Netflix to produce and distribute, through a global submission process. ” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Maine Medical Center, Maine’s largest hospital, is investing in their employees and giving them a chance to act on their innovative ideas that could transform healthcare. They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups. The Program.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. Did they have the right skills?

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. Who is the idea customer for you?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." Banana IP. "Intellectual I explore this peculiar entrepreneurial career path in further detail in THIS entry.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M from Moonshots.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2013

There was a time in console and PC game development when developers could enter a publishing agreement and retain the rights to the IP they created. Steve Goldstein of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP covers the world of "work for hire" in the videogame industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

But the idea that you could start a new studio today — with the hundreds of millions required just to launch one blockbuster hit — is absurd. So every company that I now work with or talk to that has a need for character-based IP — I always direct them to Andrew. I took the bait.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. We're not yet talking about pricing and packages, but the idea is we'll have cheaper rates on prepaid and pay-as-you-go.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We have 25 ideas on ways to publish or package that content, and put it into clip shows on television or other formats. It really started, because John is a clip show producer, and realized that the value was in the ownership of the IP. All of those revolve around the central thesis that you have to own your own IP.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

But to me if you’re not willing to quit and take a risk on yourself, then you’re not confident enough in your own idea and skills. If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself?

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

The use of intellectual property (IP) to claim these tools can be problematic. For those who follow IP law, this is the tension behind the “abstraction test” in copyright and the recent Supreme Court software patent decision in Alice Corp. I didn’t play the descending line separately as you get the idea now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management. This is an imperative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2014

Nobody had ever conceived of the Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) idea, because devices didn’t really exist, either. Second, we need to pay closer attention to obstacles that are slowing the transition to an all-IP world. As a lifelong technologist I am amazed at how fast my industry is changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. 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. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

They claim that Mr. Zuckerberg “stole” their idea of creating a social network for the Harvard student community. The related question was: “ What should the Winklevoss twins have done to protect their idea?” Universal thought the key was Oswald (the idea), whereas Disney knew the key was in the execution of the cartoon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Not every idea can, or will, be a winner. This should include at least the key elements of idea generation, prioritization, prototyping, commercialization, and measurement. Successful innovation turns ideas into money, to enhance customer value, and thus shareholder value. Idea management. This is an imperative.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

What makes us unique is we've filed a lot of IP on these timed, repetitive searches, and I think that's what is going to give us a unique value proposition. We're filing a lot of IP, and this repetitive search thing is big for us. The idea is that people have known there is a huge consumables market out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2014

Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. Also, to the extent that NDAs increase the comfort level of those talking, they can foster more open communication and exchange of ideas by making both parties feel they are protected.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter. The idea is that people may have reasons for being anonymous (e.g. In the rare instances where I get a troll I’m able to delete their comment and block them by email address or IP address. That may be. I’ve written about this topic before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. 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. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

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. Remember that ideas cannot be patented, only novel implementations. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers. They had twelve people when I took over at FrontBridge, which was then an interesting idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Almost every idea worthy of funding has 5 amazing teams trying to do the same thing and execution and team determines the winners. Compelling. Visually stunning (in this day and age this is becoming a sine qua non ).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. People are used to the idea to check their email when their attention dozes off, or do other things.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. 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. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. Fallacy: As discussed in Spilling The Beans , ideas are worthless, while skillful execution is priceless.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Fridman came up with the idea after being approached by an intellectual property attorney at a networking event this past Fall. The man said he was attending to offer startups free IP advice, and Fridman was amazed that there wasn’t a crowd of hungry entrepreneurs picking his brain. More: [link] com/in/adamfridman.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

I moved over, halfway in my tenure, to be GM in on the IP support line of the business, which included GoToMyPC and GoToAssist. So, we'll be focusing on that, and we have many other ideas where we're innovating. That was a $250M line of business when I left.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis? What's the idea behind the Twitter support? What we really wanted was, we wanted to own the IP, lock, stock, and barrel, and be able to exploit it on the desktop, on mobile, and on whatever device might come out.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible. The second thing we look at is the quality of the idea.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Venture capitalists are evaluating you as much on your psychology as on your idea.

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