Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Value creation. Accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Social networks.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. Social networking sites, and even the general enterprise has need for this. How is this different?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money. Operational risk.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. Lisa LeVasseur: There's an alpha version for Windows Mobile on our web site today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money. Operational risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money. Operational risk.

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Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 89

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. George Ruan: Users who sign in to our site see three boxes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

Angel 89

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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.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

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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.

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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 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Social networks.

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Sites Social Network Networking Patents 86

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. 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. What's the idea behind the Twitter support?

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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 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Social networks.

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Sites Social Network Competition Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2016

Aspiring entrepreneurs often approach me as an angel investor, touting their innovative idea for yet another online dating site. According to statistics , there are more than 5,000 dating sites worldwide with 1,000 new ones appearing every year. For starters, 40 percent of frequent site users are already married.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Social networks and search engines.

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Sites Social Network Statistics Patents 49

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment.

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