Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Proper hiring of people with a natural curiosity, open-mindedness, and ability to see the big picture is the way to create and enhance the right mind-set. Business risks are not just development risks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne , which manufactures and develops ceramic products for the defense, energy, auto, and other industries, said Monday that one of its subsidiaries, SemEquip , has inked a technology and patent licensing deal. Ceradyne said SemEquip has license its cluster ion implant hardware to Nissin Ion Equipment Co. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2009

Vista-based Aperio Technologies , which develops digital pathology products for the healthcare and life sciences industries, is reporting that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Olympus America, Inc., Aperio said it has hired litigator Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP in the lawsuit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Provide outside training opportunities and hiring to promote this culture. Tesla has found that sharing many of their battery patents has expanded the market for all electric vehicle providers, as well as attracted the very best engineers to join Tesla’s team. New customers don’t see incremental improvements.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

GoTV Networks said it will acquire the library of HOMBRE applications, client and server technologies, and patents, and will also hire HOMBRE's employees in San Francisco and San Diego. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Proper hiring of people with a natural curiosity, open-mindedness, and ability to see the big picture is the way to create and enhance the right mind-set. Business risks are not just development risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

For example, Elon Musk, who owns many battery patents , normally kept for a competitive edge, decided to open them all to any competitors in an effort to expand the market for his electric vehicles. Plus you can challenge yourself to keep abreast of technology advancements in related industries, looking for a fit in your own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cash flow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires. Before you invest your life savings, or bet your career on this startup, you need to know how much of a barrier to entry the brand and patents are projected to be.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We hired more people, have more programming, expanded into more countries, produce better content, speak in more places and are generally more visible. This is my 4th market upset and in the first three I was defensive. The result of this was that I lost less than I might have if I was less prudent. Recessions are a life lesson.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2010

University professors, industry gurus, lawyers familiar with patent law and former executives of competitor companies are typical recruits to an advisory board. I sit on a board of a company with potentially valuable patents that it is exploiting aggressively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. The same thing goes for incorporating your company, having key hires lined up, and facilities arranged as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Successful people look for complementary co-founders, and hire a multi-faceted team. I do recommend non-disclosures and patents, but more can be gained than lost by talking to outside experts. You may be a product expert, but have little experience with running a business, or marketing, or sales. Two heads are better than one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires. Before you invest your life savings, or bet your career on this startup, you need to know how much of a barrier to entry the brand and patents are projected to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2021

It can come from experience, or from training in a prior company, and it can even be self-taught from the Internet by smart entrepreneurs, just like they learned the skill of establishing a company, negotiating a contract, or filing a patent. It means not only hiring, but training and measuring performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

In many cases, growing the ecosystem is so important that your best competitive move may be to invest in facilitating “competition,” such as Tesla Motors giving away their battery patents to other auto providers, without royalties, to build the ecosystem. Select new hires with attention to values.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In addition to holding eight Internet technology patents in online advertising and market research, Burr was named one of the “25 Top Unsung Heroes of the Net,” by Interactive Week, one of the “21 people leading us into the 21st Century” by Response Magazine, and one of the “Top 50 IT executives at xSPs” by InfoWorld.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2013

Disclosing inventions before the patent application is filed. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Then they realize that they have talked to many people without signing non-disclosure statements, precluding a patent, or someone else has now beat them to the filing docket.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Don’t assume that you need to rent an office to start a business or hire an accountant to track expenses and assets. You no longer need to travel to China or hire an expensive prototyping expert to mock up your new design. Trademarks, copyrights and even patents can be completed online by anyone through the U.S.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Would I hire a broker? They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. I have the weeks to follow to make mine. Investment banker? Do it myself? How do I appraise my intellectual property to estimate royalty rates?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Disclosing inventions before the patent application is filed. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Then they realize that they have talked to many people without signing non-disclosure statements, precluding a patent, or someone else has now beat them to the filing docket.

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Startup Patents Legalzoom Invest 99

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Would I hire a broker? They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. I have the weeks to follow to make mine. Investment banker? Do it myself? How do I appraise my intellectual property to estimate royalty rates?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Cash flow can be drastically reduced by working out of your garage.

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Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

It is a truism that with more capital you will hire people more quickly and spend more liberally whether it’s on external contractors, PR firms, attending events, doing legal work (trademarks, patents) or whatever. It forces harder decisions about whom you’ll hire and whom you’ll delay. million or $4 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2013

These would include equipment leases, joint venture agreements, real estate leases, and work-for-hire agreements. Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Employee records. Intellectual property records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Hire only qualified team members you can trust, and listen to their feedback. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

These would include equipment leases, joint venture agreements, real estate leases, and work-for-hire agreements. Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Employee records. Intellectual property records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

Disclosing inventions before the patent application is filed. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Then they realize that they have talked to many people without signing non-disclosure statements, precluding a patent, or someone else has now beat them to the filing docket.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2012

These would include equipment leases, joint venture agreements, real estate leases, and work-for-hire agreements. Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Employee records. Intellectual property records.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Obviously, we got lots of influential people and money, and hired a ton of people. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. A founder can only blame them self, but what went wrong, is hiring the wrong people, getting the wrong investors.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology, mixed-gender teams produce patents that are cited up to 42% more often. According to CEO Harris, “We overtly seek diversity of thought in our new hires. These folks tend to thrive in our culture of respect, acceptance and opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

Every business takes time to scale and penetrate a market due to organizational growth, hiring, training, brand building and customer adoption. You need patents and trademarks as a barrier to entry. Hire helpers in lieu of people who are smarter than you. Hire people who can train you rather than ones you need to train.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

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. We hear you had great success crowdfunding the effort, what's the story there?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. Hire a great CFO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

Hiring local staff requires establishment of a legal entity, which can be both expensive and time consuming. The hiring/firing process is lengthy, expensive and complex. Termination of a wrongly hired person can be a very expensive process. However, the financial benefit may exceed the risk of losing partial patent protection.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

Some of the examples are patently obvious (e.g., (i) If a recruit is not the best candidate you can reasonably find for a particular position, do not hire them. If you make one hiring compromise you can be sure more will follow. Speed is vital at a startup.

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