socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding. Erik Rannala: The name is a reference, actually, to Thomas Edison and the research lab he created.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In my years of advising startups, and also as an occasional angel investor, I still recommend this set of best practices to prepare you for platform applications: Formalize a business entity immediately. Market research from credible third parties, such as Gartner Group, is also critical to success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Consider this list of commonly recognized software patent flaws, as summarized from my research, Paul Graham’s “ Are Software Patents Evil?” Process is onerous, expensive, and time consuming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Consider this list of commonly recognized software patent flaws, as summarized from my research, Paul Graham’s “ Are Software Patents Evil? It is in the jargon not “technical.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Research your market. If not, at least find someone really technical that you trust to help act as an adviser to you. If you can’t find somebody any technical resources at all through networking please consider keeping your day job. The decision is already made. Your next business will have less ;-).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Include any empirical evidence--including market research or technical analysis, if that''s appropriate--in order to bolster your case about why you believe you will succeed. If you don''t have a team on staff, then a banker is going to want to hear about outsourcing and advisors. A winning product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Consider this list of commonly recognized software patent flaws, as summarized from my research, Paul Graham’s “ Are Software Patents Evil? Process is onerous, expensive, and time consuming.

Patents 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Include any empirical evidence--including market research or technical analysis, if that's appropriate--in order to bolster your case about why you believe you will succeed. If you don't have a team on staff, then a banker is going to want to hear about outsourcing and advisors. A winning product or service. An impressive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Here is a list of commonly recognized software patent flaws, as summarized from my research and Paul Graham’s essay on the subject “ Are Software Patents Evil?” It is in the jargon not “technical.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer. The next day, the technical team started coding away, building a cool game for developers to battle skills on.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Psychologist, University of Southern CaliforniaSena’s research explores a variety of social psychological topics, e.g. morality, romantic relationships, political ideology, evolution and biology of attraction, mate selection, and love, religious beliefs, and culture differences. Sena Koleva Ph.D. / @SheFeline. 12pm: BODY. 4pm: PLANET.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

There is a second set of career discussions I have even more frequently than my “angel yourself” advice but this type is almost never discussed publicly in blogs, which tend to emphasize only billion-dollar opportunities, 20-something technical founders and Silicon Valley elitism.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? With a little research I found a few notable ones, including the following: Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems , which he co-founded along with three partners in 1982. Consider it a waste of time.

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