Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. If there really are no competitors, then there is likely no market opportunity, or you haven’t looked yet.

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Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2011

San Diego-based Covario , the search engine optimization and search engine marketing software firm headed by Russ Mann, revealed this week that it has secured its first patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The firm said the patent covers technology used in its SEO Audit Score System. According to the U.S.

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SEO Patents Search Engine Optimization San Diego 189

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Let your highly motivated customers be your best marketing advocates for new customers.

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Marketing Examples Startup Customer 170

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Carlsbad-based KFX Medical , which is developing bone implant products for the orthopedic surgery market, reported today that it has received a third patent. The patent, U.S. The patent was filed on September 26, 2011, and names Michael L. KFX Medical was represented by Knobbe Martens in the patent filing.

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Patents Equity Report Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements of mainstream customers. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Product 117

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Venture Capital Product Marketing Resource 296

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

According to the firm, the new patent covers its production process and fluorinated multi-layered carbon nanomaterials, which are used in its batteries. patent is number 7794880, and according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office was filed in November of 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Patents Azusa CalTech Research 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2023

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Disclosures relative to patents. Product details in the public domain can never be patented.

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Technical Review Patents Ideas Sample 101

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2016

Pasadena-based mobile ad measurement platform developer UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, has released a new, mobile attribution product that tracks cross-media advertisement and correlates that to foot traffic in stores. READ MORE>>.

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Product Idealab Patents Pasadena 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

International Trade Commission has taken up a complaint, filed by Santa Barbara-based Sonos , that Google has been importing and selling goods which Sonos says infringe upon its patents. The move is the latest in a big battle between Sonos and Google. READ MORE>>.

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Google Santa Barbara Patents Competition 113

Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

Is your market identifiable and accessible? Test yourself as to whether you can identify the size of your market niche, and whether you can overcome the many barriers to access customers within your niche. How large a total market? Email readers, continue here…] Can you dominate that market?

Patents 291

Patents Pricing Ideas Marketing 291

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition.

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IP Product Equity Tool 136

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Disclosures relative to patents. Product details in the public domain can never be patented.

Ideas 159

Ideas Tips Technical Review Patents 159

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

They are also seeking to find out how you handle one of the many tough questions that a new founder will get in today’s market. He or she will assume your comment means there is no market for your product or service, or you haven’t looked. Declare that you will offer the product or service free.

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Competition Patents Resource Invest 133

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop.

Marketing 92

Marketing Demand Examples Social Media 92

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

These are your candidates, because they are companies already absorbing much or all the marketing expense necessary to make sales of your invention. They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition.

IP 120

IP Product Equity Tool 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Your solution fills a real market need. Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for.

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Startup Patents Competition Social Network 160

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

In their passion and excitement about a new product or service, entrepreneurs tend to continually narrow the scope of potential competitors, and often claim to have no direct competitors. First to market, for example, is not normally a sustainable advantage for startups. Order-of-magnitude cost reduction or productivity increase.

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Competition Funding Startup Patents 166

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan.

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Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2013

Irvine-based Netlist , a publicly listed developer of memory for the cloud computing and storage market, announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in credit financing. According to Netlist, it will use the new funding to support ongoing development of its product and patent portfolio. READ MORE>>.

Patents 147

Patents Cloud Computing Activity Capital 147

Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

First: Product risk. . Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to. One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 156

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, or an inadequate revenue model. Target market. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing. Production.

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Sales Customer Custom Outsource 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You may think that patents and copyrights are not required, since your products are so innovative, but you will find that competitors are quick to copy your idea if you don’t protect it. Although Elon Musk doesn’t talk about it very much, he owns over 350 patents through Tesla, just one of his many companies.

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Entrepreneur Patents Startup Technical Review 173

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

I’m still amazed at how many technical entrepreneurs don’t have a business pitch, and offer me their product pitch or product spec instead. I’m a technologist, so I always love to learn about the product, but every investor needs to make sure you have a business, as well as a product.

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Product Slides Entrepreneur Invest 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

Every business area has competition and every customer has alternatives, so a smart entrepreneur needs to acknowledge these as a positive in defining a big market, and position the features of a new solution in this context. Talk about competitors with positive statements about the advantages of your own product.

Competition 111

Competition Entrepreneur Patents Customer 111

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

They are also seeking to find out how you handle one of the many tough questions that a new founder will get in today’s market. He or she will assume your comment means there is no market for your product or service, or you haven’t looked. Declare that you will offer the product or service free.

Competition 120

Competition Patents Resource Invest 120

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based Typo , the startup backed by Ryan Seacrest, has been ordered to pay $860,000 to BlackBerry Ltd , for selling its iPhone case, which had been found likely to infringe on BlackBerry''s patents. Typo''s current product no longer has a distinctive, BlackBerry-style keyboard. District court. READ MORE>>.

Patents 100

Patents Los Angeles Product Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Patents and trademarks are very valuable in attracting investors for scaling, as well as future premium buyouts.

Startup 124

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Ideas 124

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

Venture Capital 243

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 243

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Think the unthinkable.

Ideas 171

Ideas Patents Training Entrepreneur 171

Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

First: Product risk. . Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? Second: Market risk. . Email readers, continue here…] Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? Third: Management risk. .

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Ideas to improve the usability of an existing product, or ways to extend its audience, are not likely to be unique to you, and difficult to win over competitors. You may be a product expert, but have little experience with running a business, or marketing, or sales. Be prepared to ship a minimum viable product and pivot.

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Startup Metrics Ideas Entrepreneur 162

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Note the growth of your team and your own leadership.

Startup 118

Startup Satisfaction Customer Custom 118

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Patents and trademarks are very valuable in attracting investors for scaling, as well as future premium buyouts.

Startup 174

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Ideas 174

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. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Scaling services means cloning yourself. Networking and relationships.

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Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91