Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent Harvard Research study, first-time inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets. At the end of the period studied, 94.5% People are free or cheap because of the recession.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Seek innovation that begets invention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

Ida was well positioned to expand her market from upscale clients purchasing custom dresses to mass market consumers. In 1917, Mary Phelps Jacobs was granted patent 1,115,674 , which states, “This invention relates to improvements in brassieres.” (sic). As such, it had no impact on the fashion market. Celebrity Sells.

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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

All those years of hard work to reach the promised land, then just as a drug owner is ready to spike it home and take a victory lap, the FDA’s hands rise over the net… OK, it’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s better than comparing the patent fight over the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to table tennis. (Be

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. The market scope for your solution should be quantified in non-technical terms, with data sourced from professionals in the industry, rather than your own opinion. Marketing, sales, and customer experience.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Because we want to get into production, marketing, and sales, right now we're listing on Fundable.com. I was doing that until 1995. Then, there is our system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Seek innovation that begets invention.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. Unless your venture is focused on researching potential scientific breakthroughs, it is likely that your technology can be easily copied and your patents circumvented. " [Tweet this quote].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2013

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rock Prodigy is Music Prodigy’s pioneer product and is a revolutionary interactive music app powered by patent-pending polyphonic pitch-recognition technology that allows musicians of all skill levels to use any instrument and provide instant performance feedback to accelerate learning. Practice, Right Skills & Experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Seek innovation that begets invention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Seek innovation that begets invention.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

Our first project was 3D imaging of the heart, so that doctors could study a pacemaker and defibrillator recall from the Alfred E. Mann had long sold the company and patents, but one of their providers which had been installing them surgically, and had started installing parts from China. Mann implantable device area.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. MIT’s approach to nurturing entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years.

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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. Early 20s: Studied EE and went to business school at age 23. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. IoT: Rufus Labs.

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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 Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Quantify the market opportunity in business terms. For example, “Nielsen projects that the market for smart phones will double every year for the next five years.” Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson: I was doing my graduate studies at the University of Washington, and was doing things in the field of activity recognition, which is recognizing sensors and getting computers to identifying what people are doing. The sort of support mechanisms and networks in place really are about pharmaceuticals, biomedical, and patents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

A while back, one of my aspiring entrepreneur friends was trying to impress me with his expertise, by bragging that he had the idea for a couple of innovations before anyone else, but he just never got around to filing a patent before someone stole it from him. Incent and reward new ideas with action, not more study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog. The average total fees for obtaining a patent are now way up to $38,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Never create a market you can’t supply and support. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Use the rule of “plan early, quote late, and ship early,” to be a hero rather than a zero.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Create a market you can’t supply and support. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Use the rule of “plan early, quote late, and ship early,” to be a hero rather than a zero.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

So please don’t send me any more business plans along these lines, looking for investor funding, with no marketing budget, and promising huge returns. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough market to enter at this stage. No longer a growth market. Some say that’s a billion dollar “recession proof” opportunity.

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