article thumbnail

NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case.

Startup 211
article thumbnail

NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case.

Startup 198
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

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. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

article thumbnail

Interview with Dave Waldman, Bccthis

socalTECH

Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. 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.

Email 185
article thumbnail

How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. Who is leading your patent filing program? Legal threats from other IP holders? It literally can put you out of business. Who is dealing with trademarks?