SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

How 'IP Capitalists' are beating Venture Capitalists in Innovative Companies? Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12B to get access to their 17,000 patents. Nortel sold its 6000 patents for $4.5B Even IBM (the #1 in US Patents) sold over 1000 of its patents recently. See [link] (more)

Technology Council 100

Technology Council IP TCOSC Patents 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Today I’m handing her the largest A-round check I’ve ever written as a VC as we lead her $10 million A-Round at uBeam. As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. We hired IP specialists to review prior art.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well. How’s that for duality. Business - how are you actually going to make money? many more (please comment below)

Startup 150

Startup SEM IP SEO 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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Orange County 113

Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

It makes sense for Indiana institutions to encourage innovation that helps the world, since then-Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana worked with then-Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to create the bipartisan Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, or Bayh-Dole Act, in 1980.

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending. As a former VC, why'd you decide to get involved with BigStage and back to the operating side? However, I've only spent 5 and a half years of the last thirty in venture capital.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. Who is leading your patent filing program?

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150