Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who see a new marketplace or niche or how to reach the mass market in ways not previously attempted. Commissioner of Patents in 1899. Well, it’s a fair question. Innovation does not always equal invention. That was Charles H. Duell, U.S.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 156

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. Commissioner of Patents in 1899. Well, it’s a fair question. And millions of innovators are at work extending these capabilities. That was Charles H.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

Act in the interests of expanding the total market. Sometimes, to scale the market you need drive expansion by co-opetition or fostering common platforms. Elon Musk offered his battery patents free to all takers in order to expand the electric car market, and provide a common infrastructure.

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Patents Mentor Customer Custom 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

For example, BlackBerry was really the first in the smart mobile phone market, but they never thought beyond their tiny physical keyboard as they added new features. I call this linear thinking , and it’s a sure way to be ultimately overrun by your competition. Always practice thinking outside the box.

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Competition Examples Customer Custom 139

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets. uBeam intends to charge your mobile phones at amazing speeds while you are simply using your phone or setting it down anywhere.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Manual tracking and occasional surveys won’t keep you competitive in today’s high volume and rapidly changing market. You need a platform that is comfortable with the global scope of today’s market, with it’s wide range of social and economic cultures, trends, and needs. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

They are also seeking to find out how you handle one of the many tough questions that a new founder will get in today’s market. He or she will assume your comment means there is no market for your product or service, or you haven’t looked. Neither speaks well for you or your startup. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

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Startup Competition Patents Resource 118

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others? Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. We have a mobile app, and a Facebook app, and all of that can be private labeled. What is the SnapCuts service? What kind of clips can people access?

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Social Network Mobile Media Examples 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

They are also seeking to find out how you handle one of the many tough questions that a new founder will get in today’s market. He or she will assume your comment means there is no market for your product or service, or you haven’t looked. Neither speaks well for you or your startup. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

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Entrepreneur Competition Patents Resource 110

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

They are also seeking to find out how you handle one of the many tough questions that a new founder will get in today’s market. He or she will assume your comment means there is no market for your product or service, or you haven’t looked. Neither speaks well for you or your startup. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

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Competition Patents Resource Entrepreneur 51

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For instance, one of our targets are those who have large audiences, like mobile carriers. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Who are your core customers?

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. How did you two connect?

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Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. Taking action to file even a provisional patent shows you have the conviction and skill to execute while others have no barrier to entry.

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Capital Competition Case Study Patents 63

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. How long has Bccthis been around?

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

I've been focused only on mobile for the last twelve years. I had probably spent eight months perfecting the product, and getting the design where it needed to be, and all patents filed. Sometimes they said they had an idea, and wanted to get a patent on it, and wanted to launch on Kickstarter next week.

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Patents Ideas Design Startup 191

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. I had been starting Internet startups, and I realized that around 2000/2001 that mobile was going to next big thing.

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VentureNet Startup Mobile Technology Council 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We were fortunate to be approached to provide mobile EV charging for Jaguar, and have developed that solution, and it's now a big part of our business. It's been an exciting two years.

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Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 243

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. That's on the cause marketing side of things. You need a third profile.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

"We are doing something in mobile advertising." I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Mobilizing all the resources of localized 3D design, 3D printing, traditional manufacturing and input materials for individual custom creations with added benefits of supporting our local economy,” says Jeremy Goodwin, co-founder of SYNCFAB. More technically speaking, SYNCFAB is a technical hybrid 3D print and design solution platform.

Design 84

Design Platform Patents Outsource Development 84

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

"We are doing something in mobile advertising." I like how Mark Suster handles the question in 10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Vyclone (www.vyclone.com) has created a mobile application which lets users capture videos, and automatically edits and combines multiple points of view from people nearby, and remixes it into an even more compelling video. As for the rest of the development, we went back to my roots in London. What's the next thing for you?

Startup 235

Startup Entertainment Los Angeles Ideas 235

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Next was Mobile Web America ‘s ultra impressive display of their patent-pending web application that converts most websites into a mobile friendly format. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. Markets now, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Las Vegas. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2013

According to Quipa, using a patented approach that’s more agile and secure than traditional VPN technologies, its QuipaLoop software segments a network into “loops” of trusted devices. The QuipaLoop can operate across one or many physical networks and is easily deployed on mobile devices as well as traditional laptop or desktop computers.

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Yammer Journal Networking Software 72

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2019

We haven't done any paid marketing or advertising, but more and more companies are finding us, and our business has started developing. We were fortunate to be approached to provide mobile EV charging for Jaguar, and have developed that solution, and it's now a big part of our business. It's been an exciting two years.

Startup 133

Startup Customer Custom News 133

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. It's a great talk.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire powers voice and text messaging applications that enable businesses, government agencies and grassroots organizations to instantly and affordably communicate with key audiences.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Their patented multi-purpose cleaning formula was recently approved by Boeing to replace toxic solvents. EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. IoT: Rufus Labs. Utility: Envoy Now.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA). How will Beast Mobile cut down the cost of your ever-increasing cell phone bill? Targeted mobile advertising. They are bridging the communication gap between citizens, law enforcement, corporations and all branches of government with their mobile app. Oria Ring by Enhancia (Grenoble, France).

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Eventum , an enterprise event marketing and engagement platform that enables Fortune 1000 brands to amplify event marketing dollars and create digital relationships with attendees. GetMeRated , a mobile app where teens and twentysomethings find new friends through photos and chat. Founded by L.A.’s

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Marketing & PR. Plan your marketing strategy. Decide on a target market and conduct a market analysis. Master social media marketing. Leverage current customers with email marketing.

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40