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Annual IP Case Law Review

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, November 4, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents: Annual IP Case Law Review. Supreme Court which affected whether software and business methods are patentable. Join in a panel discussion of the cases that were decided and that have affected the landscape of patent law this past year.

IP 100
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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? Tell me about the business. How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Fulfillment?

Develop 520
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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. What do I do now? After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with.

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Qualcomm Buys iSkoot

socalTECH

iSkoot Technologies includes substantially all of the assets of San Francisco-based iSkoot, a developer of social networking and Skype-compatible voice-over-IP software for mobile phones. Tags: qualcomm iskoot merger acquisition mobile software skype social networking. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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5 Startup Killers And How to Avoid Them

Tech Zulu Event

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. Don’t ask VCs to sign them.