Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Redefine your product to reach a new category.

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Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. But the real product being bought or sold is “trust.” You had an amazing meeting with an investor.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. It really started, because John is a clip show producer, and realized that the value was in the ownership of the IP. How did this go from content on a channel to a company?

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

We have a business plan we do every year, and our business plans focuses on areas of key growth, and we look at where we can organically or inorganically grow in those key areas. The other thing we do is continue to invest in products and build really new, innovative technology in the markets we already serve.

Acquisition 173

Acquisition IP Networking Marketing 173

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. For example, if I'm a competitor to the Citrix Virtual Desktop software, from Vmware, I might want to know all of the companies who are using Citrix, so I can talk to them about how my products are better, and meet their needs.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. My group ran that organization, all of Cisco''s connected consumer products, or what is usually termed as devices connected to the Internet. What is your product all about?

Startup 202

Startup Platform Networking Services 202

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Innovation needs ownership, a champion and team leader within the organization. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Fear of failure can kill innovation. Value creation.

Coach 98

Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

The first purpose of a strategy is to organize and reallocate your resources to increase return on the amount of money invested in your startup to-date. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings. Intellectual property (IP). Scalability.

Startup 99

Startup Competition IP Patents 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Innovation needs ownership, a champion and team leader within the organization. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Fear of failure can kill innovation. Value creation.

Coach 93

Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. Legal threats from other IP holders? Here’s the dilemma.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The first purpose of a strategy is to organize and reallocate your resources to increase return on the amount of money invested in your startup to-date. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings. Intellectual property (IP). Scalability.

Startup 92

Startup Competition IP Patents 92

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University shared data that shows the state is the nation’s second-largest exporter of life sciences products , with $9.9 Indiana’s life sciences sector touches the lives of people around the world. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept.

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Our analytics team is second to none, in our ability to leverage our IP and methods to isolate the effect of those activities, and look at them to figure out how to drive outcomes. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Innovation needs ownership, a champion and team leader within the organization. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Fear of failure can kill innovation. Value creation.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup. Obsession about the product and the customer is a common trait among startup teams.

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Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. On Demand).

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111