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. If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world.

USC

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting. Sometimes conflict comes because executives want to increase personal compensation and investors aren’t in favor of this.

Startup

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: While creating our email product, we'd done quite a bit of work on patenting the processes we were going through, and liked the concept of private messaging. Because there's always some level of information or relationship disparity between multiple people in an email, this allows them to fill in those gaps.

Email

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It helps to have a following of loyal advocates in the mainstream press. Patents and other intellectual property are a necessary initial “barrier to entry,” but these are just the beginning. Premium ventures need real traction, such as 100 million users, 10 million in revenue, or brand recognition around the world.

Company

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Amazon already has a patent to automatically ship you other items of interest, without prompting, based on your prior order and usage patterns (returns are free and simple). The latest wave of medical alert sensors for seniors, like Medical Alert™, will automatically call an ambulance for you after a fall without even pressing a button.

Customer

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2015

In 1945, Hedy and Antheil codified their invention by filing a patent claim. Images: Associated Press. The novice inventors conjectured, “What if the frequency was randomly changed while controlling the device?” just as the notes of Antheil’s melody hopped between pianos. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse.

Hollywood

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

Tips

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. In the late 90's, online started to get press, and people were raising money and this was pre-first bubble. That's what we've done, and what we're calling PageGage. What is it a sales person can do now with your new product that they couldn't do before?

Advertising

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Which button do you press? Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value.

Startup

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Reach out to relevant newspapers and press. Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. Recommended.

Outsource Development

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Due to their aversion to being publicly humiliated, most BDC partners will attempt to preclude you from issuing any unilateral press releases. See Thrill The Messenger for tips regarding how to maximize the impact of Partner press releases.

Outsource Development

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most newspapers are written at a third-grade reading level, White House press releases average a fourth-grade reading level and the New York Times is easily digestible by the average fifth grader. Patents and Trademarks. As best-selling author Stephen King once said, "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”

Venture Capital

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. One hour I might be spending time working with customers and partners, the next day raising capital, the day after that working on product vision and the next hour talking to the press.

Startup

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. Due to their aversion to being publicly humiliated, most BDC partners will attempt to preclude you from issuing any unilateral press releases. See Thrill The Messenger for tips regarding how to maximize the impact of Partner press releases.

Outsource Development

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

But if more of us in the tech sector speak up and in unison and constantly for the next 50 days it can change minds, encourage others and hopefully get amplified by the press to reach others. This was patently racist and an outrageous lie. Any one individual — myself included — will not move the needle. There are no other words for it.

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