Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital Patents Research Invest 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. Amazon attracts third-party sellers with tools and processes that make then all winners in the marketplace. Find funders who seek long-term returns.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

Search Engine Optimization 103

Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. The time to build investor relationships is before you need the investment.

Marketing 105

Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

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

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Middle Market Investment Banking. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Southern California 133

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Outsource Development 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

Search Engine Optimization 124

Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Middle Market Investment Banking. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Gemini Partners (www.geminipartners.net).

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. What drove you move from investing to starting up BetterWorks? There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.

Startup 216

Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

We also operate the network software than runs and manages the entire network layer, from access point to end point. I''ve been on the software side, and numbers here are much larger than software. So far, we''ve put lots of investment into the engineering and technology side, and we''re now shifting to sales and marketing.

Technical Review 213

Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

For example, if your new software adds innovative new features and mobile access to a classic offering, you could name and degrade current vendors for their lack of support, or you could highlight your innovative additions over the current market leaders. Remember that investors invest in people more than the idea.

Capital 63

Capital Competition Case Study Patents 63

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Poor choice of funding sources. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Software Review 106

Software Review Funding Startup Seed Funding 106

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board. Email readers continue here.]

Venture Capital 212

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 212

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Middle Market Investment Banking. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Orange County 113

Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

Startup 102

Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The startup--which has the backing of such high profile investors as Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Investments, Dreamworks, and Live Nation--also has some major partnership with entertainers like Madonna and No Doubt to create crowdsourced videos of their events. To supplement my income, I started a software business.

Startup 235

Startup Entertainment Los Angeles Ideas 235

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Poor choice of funding sources. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Seed Funding 100

Seed Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Funding 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

Startup 89

Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. 500K might be a low estimate.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. Required legal fees now average $5K or less, compared with $20K or more as a minimum.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We checked patents. But “what is wrong with tech investing today?” Time will tell.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

CapLinked’s partnership with software security firm Quipa,a software firm founded in 2008 and dealing in new and revolutionary approach to secure network connectivity, will create a stronger network and be the solution for securely managing deals in the cloud. More Agile & Secure Than Trad VPN technologies.

Yammer 72

Yammer Journal Networking Software 72

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 108

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. ”).

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2011

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Poor choice of funding sources. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Software Review 98

Software Review Funding Seed Funding Startup 98

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products.

Santa Monica 72

Santa Monica Yammer Geni Southern California 72

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. 500K might be a low estimate.

Startup 93

Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2010

Yesterday I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. The simple answer is that if you need funding, do your homework early and completely.

Software Review 95

Software Review Startup Seed Funding Funding 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Justyna Wójcik, our CEO, is a seasoned software developer and team leader. Before that, she was a technical team lead at Motorola, developing mission critical communication software. He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks. We’re going to have pending patents for our technology.

Email 63

Email CTO Hire Startup Organization 63

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Curtis Staker: The essence of what we are doing, is creating image-based technology which can be used either as an augmentation, or in place of what is out there for authentication software. The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology. That enables a truly unique login every time.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Tom Soto – Managing Director/Investment Committee Member, TCW/Craton. Tom comments on the state of affairs as someone in the trenches, investing real dollars. He sees that with Cleantech and sustainability, they’re really in the 3rd or 4th generation in an investment sense. Let’s Talk Money.

UCLA 99

UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99