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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. In between, you need it to survive.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 26, 2016

Belkin and Uponor said that Phyn will be a standalone entity, using Belkin's former Wemo Water technology as the basis for future products. Belkin said it will transfer its IP, staff, and non-monetary assets into Phyn, with Uponor investing $15M for a minority stake in the company. Belkin will own 62.5

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

For years, AT&T invested more than $1.9 The telecommunications firm says people in Los Angeles increasingly depend on mobile Internet connections for communication, entertainment and productivity at work, at home and everywhere. billion Investment. billion Investment. Project Velocity IP.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. I think you’d really enjoy meeting her wether you decide to invest or not. The dialog was great.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Middle Market Investment Banking. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies.

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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. 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.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

Comcast led our investment round, and the former CFO of Dreamworks joined us soon after. Investing along with Comcast was a Chinese theme park operator, Songcheng, which has the second largest theme park in China with north of 25 million guests. About two and a half years ago, we spun out of Dreamworks. We're an entertainment company.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

Calabasas-based Ixia said late Monday afternoon that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Catapult Communications, a developer of 3G and 4G wireless networking test products. The deal is worth $63M after accounting for Catapult's cash and investments. According to Ixia, it will pay $9.25

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew Schydlowsky: We work with manufacturers of products, things you might use, the clothes you might wear, things you use around the house, things you use in the car, and what you buy in stores, and are now buying online. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels. It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Redefine your product to reach a new category.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. In between, you need it to survive.

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Startup Patents IP Social Media 69

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 1, 2009

The workshop will include case studies on how these subjects are utilized to protect actual products or services. They will join those representing the investment community and entrepreneurs on a panel discussion about 'Common mistakes entrepreneurs make regarding intellectual property'.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. ” The Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. By March, a month after Mr. D’Angelo agreed to invest, CodeFights had raised $2.5 ” Uhhuh.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. For example, if I'm a competitor to the Citrix Virtual Desktop software, from Vmware, I might want to know all of the companies who are using Citrix, so I can talk to them about how my products are better, and meet their needs.

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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. They are IP acquisitions with some amount of channel and product, and are really meant as an IP acquisition into our core platform. We always like to buy companies like Anue.

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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.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

We're also very much marching down the path of IP reputation as well. Because Webroot was looking to bring that technology in-house, and own their own IP, they were looking for the best-of-breed product, and BrightCloud fit that criteria on both fronts. You'd mentioned you had some investors? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. In between, you need it to survive.

Startup 103

Startup Patents IP Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: Increase return on equity invested. The first purpose of a strategy is to organize and reallocate your resources to increase return on the amount of money invested in your startup to-date. Scalability.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. So imagine what it’s like to be a supplier to Walmart. Sound interesting?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. When we invest they are often the company counsel so we see them at board meetings. He represented us at one firm I invested in and did a great job.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” But if you’re the Director or Product or VP of Marketing – you don’t get to make that decision. At Upfront we invested in such a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions. 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?&#

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. It's to help us grow quickly and to bring this product to the huge, small business market.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: To increase return on equity invested. The first purpose of a strategy is to organize and reallocate your resources to increase return on the amount of money invested in your startup to-date. Scalability.

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Startup Competition IP Patents 92

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Best Cybersecurity Tools for Startups With online attacks costing businesses more and more each year , investing in cybersecurity is no longer optional. NordLayer VPN Startup tool: VPN Price from: $7 per month Virtual private networks (VPNs) help you browse the web securely by disguising your IP address when you use the internet.

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

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. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. In between, you need it to survive.

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Social Media Media Patents IP 94

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? That was early on in the digital revolution in the 90's.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 As exploits become more sophisticated and frequent, the security products needed to better detect, defend, and remediate need to dramatically improve at an accelerated pace. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years).

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Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

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. It's not a recommendation engine, it's a personalization engine, so it's all about tastes.

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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.

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