Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

As a startup advisor and investor, I’ve heard and seen hundreds of pitches from entrepreneurs, and the majority of founders are convinced that if you will just give them an hour or more time, you will love their business. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As a startup advisor and investor, I’ve heard and seen hundreds of pitches from entrepreneurs, and the majority of founders are convinced that if you will just give them an hour or more time, you will love their business. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

In the past, CPC was utilized as a measure of Google’s success in driving traffic to its network: higher CPC typically indicated Google’s search placement and results algorithms were providing high value to advertisers aiming to get their services or products in front of an eager customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. Patents can apply to innovative user interfaces, processes or a new technology algorithm. Don’t let a few myths stop you from changing the world. Patents are not worth the effort, since big companies will win.

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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. This patent holding company has charged infringement and demanded royalties from every app developer for the iPhone and Android, for a feature most agree has been in apps for many years.

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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. This patent holding company is charging infringement and demanding royalties from every app developer for the iPhone and Android, for a feature most agree has been in apps for many years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

As a startup advisor and investor, I’ve heard and seen hundreds of pitches from entrepreneurs, and the majority of founders are convinced that if you will just give them an hour or more time, you will love their business. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

Much farther down the list - if it's there at all - is the security plan the startup needs to protect its brilliant idea from theft. If some other company steals your intellectual property, your dreams can give way to lights out, a phone call to the lawyer, and "Who wants some vodka in their Red Bull?". That needs to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

and not in India, you can’t stop someone from using (and profiting from) your patented invention in India. But how is a provisional patent application different from a regular patent application , Kanika? Patentscope by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) gives anyone access to 65+ millions of patent documents.

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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?” Yet the software patent process is a mess.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. NewCo might be able to pick up an initial $50K valuation on this item. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

As of 2018, the removal of pre-defined topics allows entrepreneurs from all sectors of the economy to apply with their disruptive innovations. Powerful matching algorithms are used to allocate the projects and ensure a stringent and high-quality evaluation process. Coming from 37 countries. SME Instrument Stats at a Glance.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

The site automatically adjusted to any display size (anywhere from the iPhone to a 26″ widescreen display) to show you the maximum number of shoes possible. They had a small amount of cash in the bank from having won two business plan competitions that they used to finance the company to date. Modista was the perfect fit for K9.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Angel investors can teach you a lot about money, whether or not you’re seeking funding from them. However, the angel investors don’t make money from their investment until they can sell their ownership for actual real money. It really only means that you haven’t recovered from your MBA years.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The worst news is that too many businesses spend most of their efforts on safeguarding their systems from risks on the outside, when the threat might be lurking right in their midst. Whatever you do, you cannot safeguard your information 100%, so you have to at least learn from past mistakes and make corrections.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

TransferWise is the clever new way to transfer money between countries, from the people the people who built Skype and PayPal. From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. Nicosia, Cyprus?. Hong Kong. ?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series. Erin: The theme of this book is how to profit from your creative pursuits. Artists have brilliant minds that accountants and engineers couldn’t even create an algorithm for. What kind of reaction have you gotten from any entrepreneurs that are not artists?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Weve got a little funding from VCs. You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. From "Think and Grow Rich". Anyone that thinks they got everything figured out from day one deserves to be called a retard. But losing to competition is also a likely outcome. Isnt it? >>

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. This data hasn’t just been taken from us without permission, it’s actually being used against us. Today with algorithms we have a secret black box.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Imagine it’s 1950, and you’re a visitor who traveled back in time from today. Humans combine data with algorithms (see here for a list) to train a model using that data. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data. But What Is It?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The creator of the content ultimately wants to sell a product or service to prospective buyers who benefit from the content, but the goal of content marketing is rarely to sell directly. There are many terrific guides about content marketing, including this one from Kissmetrics. You would need to obtain patent protection for those.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The creator of the content ultimately wants to sell a product or service to prospective buyers who benefit from the content, but the goal of content marketing is rarely to sell directly. There are many terrific guides about content marketing, including this one from Kissmetrics. You would need to obtain patent protection for those.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The creator of the content ultimately wants to sell a product or service to prospective buyers who benefit from the content, but the goal of content marketing is rarely to sell directly. There are many terrific guides about content marketing, including this one from Kissmetrics. You would need to obtain patent protection for those.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As a member of the advisory board for several startups and a mentor to other entrepreneurs, I’ve accumulated my own list of strategies and recommendations on where “going the extra mile” can save you from disaster or supercharge your startup for maximum growth under any circumstances. Register intellectual property early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2017

Patents and other intellectual property go to the first person who files, rather than the first person with the idea. If all you ever do is think, you can gain tons of theoretical knowledge, but none from the real world. It’s more a function of good people and good relationships, than a scientific algorithm.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2012

Much is being made about online learning and the actions by high profile professors and universities in extending their coursework and intellectual property beyond their recent boundaries (MITx, etc.) computer science faculty, with involvement from the university’s provost.

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