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. I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
We are not “finders” and usually serve the role of advisor and attorney. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. It also helps if there is a reason that other people can’t compete with you, either because of some trade secret or patent.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. 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. The more we dug the more confident we became (and so did every advisor we used). We grilled their IP attorneys.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. Barry Lieberman: That's our patent pending, proprietary secret sauce which we've built, which is the back end of the Beatshare's technology.
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 18, 2013
The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. Their patented “ubiquitous data protocol” is designed to integrate multi-device awareness into the OS of all your devices, allowing users to think only about the screen that is most convenient.
SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. He is also an angel investor, board member and advisor to both early-stage consumer internet and new media companies as well as companies in the national security and defense sectors. Sam Mestman – Founder of We Make Movies. Julie Austin – Inventor of Swiggies.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2012
Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO. Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold.
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