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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IP Patents Ideas Research 70

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Startups Made Simple.

Orange County 113

Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

The deal is worth $63M after accounting for Catapult's cash and investments. Ixia said the acquisition will complement its IP performance test systems and service verification products. According to Ixia, it will pay $9.25 per share in cash for publicly traded Catapult, or approximately $105M.

Calabasas 100

Calabasas IP Acquisition Networking 100

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" Content Recommendations in Streaming Services While many streaming platforms suggest content based on viewing history, LLMs have the power to significantly elevate this experience. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

Generative AI 346

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 346

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'.

Case Study 100

Case Study SoCal Southern California IP 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Equally important, is an area many startup founders don’t always prioritize: choosing the right service providers and understanding the value they can bring, especially to early-stage startups. Teaming with the right service providers can have a huge impact on a startup’s ability to succeed. And get to know your banker. HR Partner.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. To learn more, we caught up with Steve.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

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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Angel Startup Seed Funding Invest 150

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.

Acquisition 173

Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com).

San Diego 145

San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

Examples 99

Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work. Own your outcomes.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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.

Startup 99

Startup Competition IP Patents 99

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

However, those services can be expensive, particularly for individual users and small and medium sized businesses. First, for folks who haven't used your service, what is Freebinar? I believe the key here is key, and the ability to provide this for free, which is why we took the recent investment. It's not a freemium model.

Tech Coast Angels 178

Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in. Our Panelist Include: Brock Pierce - Starting & Investing in Bitcoin, Games, and Gambling Businesses. a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100. On Demand).

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

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. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services. My initiative at Support.com was to introduce new products into the support space, as a Software-as-a-Service product. I moved over, halfway in my tenure, to be GM in on the IP support line of the business, which included GoToMyPC and GoToAssist.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

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.

Startup 92

Startup Competition IP Patents 92

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.” There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. At Upfront we invested in such a company. I saved my main point for last.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2015

It probably sounds obvious, but plenty of startup founders have been surprised to learn that “their” IP was owned by the software developer who just jumped ship, an academic institution one of the cofounders graduated from, or the company one of the founders worked at before she came onboard. Protect your IP : Patents are the gold standard.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Startup IP 40

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The Pasadena firm''s co-founders, Sean Lynch and Steve Curry , sat down with us to talk about the service. What does MetaCloud do?

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Adam Fridman, MSF from DePaul, 4 years investment banking and 10 years in business development consulting and start ups. 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. What inspired them?

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Startup Paramount Social Media 89

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. This revenue share comes after the YouTube split.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Custom 366

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. Explain to me how your service works? How far along is the service?

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

As outlined in Beware the Consultant , be wary when selecting a professional services firm. Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. Even so, the majority of firms focus on servicing well-established BDC’s. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Here are some real cases: Dear StartupPro, I am a minority looking for funding for a Home HealthCare Service business. I am a young senior educated in Business Administration, with more than 15 years in the HealthCare and Financial Service business. If you have some insights, don’t hesitate to let me know.

Entrepreneur 75

Entrepreneur Education Equity IP 75

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

In fact, Indiana University’s Bicentennial Strategic Plan calls for a $300 million investment program called Grand Challenges that focuses on large-scale problems facing humanity. These institutes of higher learning are encouraging innovators to develop work to impact the everyday lives of people around the world. The results?

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Do you have any rituals you observe on a day when our country honors you and your fellow Armed Services members? DB: My service was up in August of 2008, and I moved back to the U.S. I learned what technology companies such as Skype need in terms of infrastructure in order to provide their service. MM: What happened next?

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Training UCLA Technology IP 98

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: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. Legal threats from other IP holders? I have seen many companies who without a great CFO have squandered a great product or service. You really want to spend your time on that?

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

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?

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I had joined AC in 1991 as a programmer when it was a relatively small practice focused on building corporate IT systems for Fortune 500 companies and there were a handful of companies that offered the same service. Double-down on great people, process & IP. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

is a decent security solution, startups should be aware that ‘freemium' VPN services tend to profit by displaying ads and tracking your data. Best Cybersecurity Tools for Startups With online attacks costing businesses more and more each year , investing in cybersecurity is no longer optional. While Hide.me

Tool 128

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. The magic that is Silicon Valley is that every tech entrepreneur who has made a bit of money chooses to “recycle&# it by investing back into the startup community. They’re doing stuff – just not enough. Seattle has its patrons.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317