Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now? Business - how are you actually going to make money?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down. What was the biggest news for you this year? Don't bet on any one platform. Or Tapes and CDs?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. The second ones are media brand and companies and we have several of those brands on our platform. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2009

tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. BASSETT Executive Search Solutions (www.BassettSearch.com) The confidential. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

StreamSpread helps publishers create portals on their web pages that can then be used to publish tailored digital advertisements. Another leading native advertising provider is Nativo , a company that has received a lot of media attention since it first launched. Nativo works with 350 web-publishers, including the likes of Time Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Swing by Jukin Media to pickup your name tags. Jukin Media 6pm (5764 W. Media Temple 7:30pm (8520 National Blvd #A). Jukin Media , Zehner Group , Praedicat & Media Temple already on board!! Jukin Media is a digital media licensing company. Starting Point. Jefferson Blvd). Jefferson Blvd ).

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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. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. Martin Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

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MAY 22, 2009

BASSETT Executive Search Solutions (www.BassettSearch.com) The confidential source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Tyler Francois: urRadio is an all new, social media app, which allows you to host your own Internet radio station. Our CTO was the Senior Web Engineer at Yahoo Music, and helped launch many of its international platforms, and helped rebuild the original Yahoo Music and Messenger radio players. What is urRadio?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It also makes legal sense to never disclose the details of your patent application, before the product is ready to ship. Here are seven ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers. ″, …).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

It also makes legal sense to never disclose the details of your patent application, before the product is ready to ship. Here are six ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. The old media companies were resistant to change. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. What started as a tech company is gaining ground as a media company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. She is expected to champion for new products and advance its web technology. Mobile. ’s products will continue to enhance our partnerships with advertisers, technology and media companies, while inspiring and delighting our users.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As lawyers in the social media and Internet law space, this duo brings to the table practical experience counseling clients in real time and explaining breaking legal news in plain English. 20 LA and the LA Media Reform Summit. TZLaw is a weekly, 45-minute live-streaming talk show hosted by Lisa Borodkin and Christina Gagnier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

It also makes legal sense to never disclose the details of your patent application, before the product is ready to ship. Here are some of the ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. People talk to people, and even competitors freely exchange news on trends and discoveries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

With a room full of investors, founders, media, and tech enthusiasts; and a hilariously dramatic orchestral soundtrack that would show up from time to time (Cal Tech Symphony practice happening on the first floor), there was definitely a strong air of excitement through our different stages of the evening.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. Their enterprise web-app curates mentor matches with diverse talent within the company to breed an inclusive workplace culture and engage their top performers.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. It doesn't matter if someone is narcissistically motivated, or they just have a social affinity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Patents issued to you before you incorporate the business will not be considered part of the business valuation by investors. Until you have a business, you shouldn’t get a web domain name or social media accounts, since these all should match and are hard to change later.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on. For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz?

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. In addition, we have thousands of others you can download from our web site. Those are built into the guitar.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. He built & IPOd Demand Media. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. However, you'll never see that in the media. You need a third profile.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

We have hundreds, and hundreds of web sites where their ad inventory is being managed by the product. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. It was very trackable, and very measurable, and I thought that there was data you could use to drive media planning decisions. That has been in the market since 2004.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. Subblime solves this problem by allowing channels to publish content audiences want and extend that to product recommendations from across the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. Overture sold for $1.6

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