Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Statistically, the costs to the first inventor of a new technology are at least a third higher than to follow-on innovators in the same technology. Of course, the first one gets the patent. But patent disclosure requirements often make imitation easier, and smart technologists can work around most patents anyway.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Notwithstanding this discouraging statistic, there’s hope, as an increasing number of companies are proactively pursuing diversity of thought within their workforce. According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology, mixed-gender teams produce patents that are cited up to 42% more often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented. Define and document the service process you sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Based on some good estimates of how many new ventures have been started in the last five years, the statistical odds of any individual startup making it to this level are less than one in a million. Patents and other intellectual property are a necessary initial “barrier to entry,” but these are just the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. “I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented. Define and document the service process you sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. “I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. “I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

There are groups like “Applied Entrepreneurship”, where discussions get animated about the value of patents, and the legality of MLMs. Before you decide to build your own perfect match, combining the best of all of these, consider these sobering statistics. As I mentioned earlier, this network is dominated by musicians and tweens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2016

According to statistics , there are more than 5,000 dating sites worldwide with 1,000 new ones appearing every year. For a new startup, the best way to assure survival is to file patents or other intellectual property to keep future competitors from copying your success. The market is already oversaturated with competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent. If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against sleeping giants, you need to register all your patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets early. No intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against sleeping giants, you need to register all your patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets early. No intellectual property.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Our system will go off and watch those things for you, trend them over time, do statistical analysis on them, or you can use it as a very advanced news gathering system, which is what we''re doing with it today for Wall Street. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Most of these come and go so fast that gathering statistics is impossible. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Next was Mobile Web America ‘s ultra impressive display of their patent-pending web application that converts most websites into a mobile friendly format. Great for looking up Facebook and traffic statistics, Leftronic’s product offering definitely has the Startup client in mind. Looking for twitter trends on #TZSpotlight?

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

We have patents filed on this process. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works? Milo Sindell: It's a monthly subscription, ranging from $24.00 a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Statistically many of us in the tech & VC industries live in California, New York, Massachusetts or Washington where our presidential votes are likely to have no impact due to the electoral college system. This was patently racist and an outrageous lie. There are no other words for it.

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