Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

Helping solicit new business ideas and patents from individuals, federal research labs, universities and other R&D organizations countrywide. Social network for investors. Members submit ideas and patents, the JumpStartFund community members and the JumpStartFund team vets them.

El Segundo 76

El Segundo Social Network Startup Patents 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Business risks are not just development risks.

Coach 144

Coach Metrics Social Network Competition 144

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. Overture sold for $1.6

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Business risks are not just development risks.

Coach 137

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 137

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Love that sustainable competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Ideas 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2023

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Reduce litigation risks and support costs. Skip the acronyms and implementation details. Payback on investment.

Social Network 108

Social Network Training Startup Technology 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. What we are looking for here is a breakthrough in technology (patented), manufacturing process, or new revenue model, that results in an order-of-magnitude cost reduction.

Competition 102

Competition Patents Startup Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

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. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Social networks. Intellectual property is tough.

Sites 86

Sites Social Network Networking Patents 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Love that sustainable competitive advantage.

Startup 100

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 100

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.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

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. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Social networks. Intellectual property is tough.

Sites 91

Sites Social Network Competition Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. What we are looking for here is a breakthrough in technology (patented), manufacturing process, or new revenue model, that results in an order-of-magnitude cost reduction.

Competition 97

Competition Patents Startup Social Network 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 102

Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

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. The firm was pitching for funding at the Technology Council of Southern California's VentureNet event earlier this month.

VentureNet 100

VentureNet Startup Mobile Technology Council 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app that mashes up existing technology derived from early social-networking applications. Mashup probably reminds senior leaders of a train wreck, and social networking is still seen by many business executives as a frivolous waste of time.

Customer 98

Customer Custom Technology Startup 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Love that sustainable competitive advantage.

Startup 88

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 88

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Services Search Engine Optimization Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Reduce litigation risks and support costs. Skip the acronyms and implementation details. Payback on investment.

Social Network 91

Social Network Training Startup Technology 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2010

This app is a social networking application for the Gay and Bisexual community. ACME AtronOmatic has developed a patent-pending method that uses the iPhone's Bluetooth. Bandana is officially dubbed "The Gaydar App".

Social Network 83

Social Network Patents Software Development Networking 83

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I challenge them to think beyond what I call linear extensions to a current trend, such as another “easier-to-use” app for smartphones, a new dating site for pets, or another niche social network. Why doesn’t this product or service already exist?

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Ideas Resource Examples 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Inventors follow a structured process to assemble and test solutions, file patents for intellectual property protection, and define production details. Mark personally invented the early Facebook social network, while he was at Harvard, and went on to build a huge business.

Startup 124

Startup Entrepreneur Customer Custom 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Business risks are not just development risks.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. We feel that we can be an enabler of productive, secure, and intuitive use of the web for commercial purposes, whether that's for a social networking site, for communications, medical records, or financial services.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The opportunity to innovate and take ZunguZ forward and make it a reality transpired with the uptake and traction of Social Networks in the early 2000’s and more specifically with the launch of Facebook in 2004 and its momentum gained over the next few years. How safe are money transfers or online purchases on social networks?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

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.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Examples Social Network Marketing 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. Create intellectual property. Start early by registering your company, and reserving the name as your website domain name. Also don’t forget trademarks and copyrights.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Social Network Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. Create intellectual property. Start early by registering your company, and reserving the name as your website domain name. Also don’t forget trademarks and copyrights.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Social Network Startup Patents 98

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.

Startup 104

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 104

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

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. We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter.

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2010

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. Create intellectual property. Start early by registering your company, and reserving the name as your website domain name. Also don’t forget trademarks and copyrights.

Guide 92

Guide Startup Social Network Patents 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. Create intellectual property. Start early by registering your company, and reserving the name as your website domain name. Also don’t forget trademarks and copyrights.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. 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. Define some intellectual property.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

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. What you enter goes out to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and internally to our own social network.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

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.

Startup 89

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. 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. Define some intellectual property.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99