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. Those three boxes are categorized.

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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. 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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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Stage two: They say the solution was obvious all along." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. Even as Starting Point grew to be the 7th most popular site on the Internet (passing up Microsoft at #8), there were still a large number of skeptics.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Sure, you need to take the proper precautions to protect your idea first (patents, copyrights, etc.), particularly with international patent laws. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. However, I say throw away the NDAs and get your ideas out there!

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

At L90 (Startup 3.0) , we were sued by DoubleClick on the eve of our IPO for alleged patent-infrindgement. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Sometimes I have had to trash what they produced, other times it became a major turning point in a companys growth. They tried to sue us in Virginia.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. Liquidation After developing one of the most popular sites on the Internet and inventing a technology platform that enabled companies to grow their user base and generate revenue through online advertising, I felt it was time to take these experiences to market on a much larger scale. Bootstrap 2. All-Star Team 4.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Including everything from one-off development consulting projects, to building an auction site for Ticketmaster (called TicketExchange, recently launched), to developing a search engine, email hosting service and an online photo slideshow site. With the web, you can change things everyday because it is always in your control.

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