Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Here are the components and “rules of thumb” that I recommend to every startup: Place a fair market value on all physical assets (asset approach).

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Monti tells the Maine Startups Insider that she wanted to create The Innovation Cohort because she believes current tools and services on the market are not doing enough to solve some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. According to her research, there have been 22 patents issued to Maine Medical Center Research Institute in 20 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store. The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

I recommend one of the many cloud-based and low-cost tools to help, such as the Viewpost business network. Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Corporate records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

This almost always starts at the top, based on a founder’s dream and passion, without the proper homework on sizing the market, or assessing product realities. Raise accountability by narrowing your focus and tools to improve productivity. The team accepts no accountability, because they have not been made believers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

That data--if you could just find the right piece--could be useful in a number of areas, particularly in the financial markets. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. out of UC Irvine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Here are the components and “rules of thumb” that I recommend to every startup: Place a fair market value on all physical assets (asset approach).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2013

Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools. You can''t walk in with a bag full of receipts.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

Allison Dollar: SnapCuts is a digital media marketing platform, which uses social video messaging. Brands that have a fan base can use it as a marketing platform, and they can push things out to their list. But, what she found was that not everyone has an editor's eye, and can use those video and video tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2012

Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools. You can't walk in with a bag full of receipts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Semiconductor startups seem to be quite rare in today's environment, with few companies being funded or launched, due both to the difficulty of bringing products to market, lack of investment capital, as well as lots of established, large companies in the industry. In terms of markets, we address the Zigbee, Bluetooth, and 2.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Here are the components and “rules of thumb” that I recommend to every startup: Place a fair market value on all physical assets (asset approach).

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2011

Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools. You can't walk in with a bag full of receipts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. You may attract early adopters, who love everything new, but the mainstream market will be elusive. Create an entirely new market space or new category.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

That has been in the market since 2004. However, what happened as we worked with clients on AdBook, we got deep into the trenches with online ad sales and learning the operational nuances--there are plenty--we realized that there were a couple of big gaps in the market. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

3D printing has been around for the past 30 years, however patents prevented others from advancing such technology. Now, those patents have finally dissolved and allowed a new wave of innovators to take advantage of the technology. Traditional manufacturing would subtract materials to create a product.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

Brown was approached by a manufacturer, who asked if his technology could hold tools for an assembly line. At the time, I had a business finding technology that grew up in the entertainment business, and developing that technology for a larger market. Eric Golden: The first use is for holding tools for manufacturers.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. 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. Basically, everything is free.

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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. Winning Not By Sheer Luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Use Basic Tools – Budget, Cash Flow Forecast, and a good Accounting System. Two Basic Colors – Debt (borrow) and Equity (buy). 14 Sources of Money – From family, friends, and fools to being a public company. Five Diagnostic Questions – Provide a starting point for good planning.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

I spend about twelve months before starting BetterWorks thinking about the SMB space, and the lack of tools and software for companies. I wanted to give companies a tool to recruit, retain, and optimize their existing workforce. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented. I found out what Nicole said was true.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. Why do developers use your tools? As someone with a good view of the mobile ad market, are there any things you think about at the industry level? That''s been growing at a monstrous clip.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. Lon: I'm just getting ready to release my updated book " The Social Media Bible Second Edition ” and I just started a new company last week called Extreme Digital Marketing. My most recent was Extreme Digital Marketing. Tell us what you do these days.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. Instead of the Internet being bad, with the filtering and security tools, we made it a productive tool. It's just an anti-phishing tool, so you can verify you are on their web site. It's not used for authentication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2012

Even he had some great help from Steve Ballmer, a real marketing guy, and others. If you have ever written a patent application, you know it’s all about details, linkages, and causes vs. effects. Exaggeration, pipe dreaming and denial are the tools and comforts of the trade of entrepreneurism. Good with details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry. Show an aggressive marketing and sales plan. With today’s rapid pace of change and information overload, word-of-mouth and social media alone is not a viable marketing plan.

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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. More Agile & Secure Than Trad VPN technologies. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. Our mission is to create a dynamic platform with powerful tools that provide the most engaging user experience possible. What is your driving force, energy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2011

Even he had some great help from Steve Ballmer, a real marketing guy, and others. If you have ever written a patent application, you know it’s all about details, linkages, and causes vs. effects. Exaggeration, pipe dreaming and denial are the tools and comforts of the trade of entrepreneurism. Good with details.

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