Back in 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. That was also the year that Mel Epstein, then…
Many may consider my approach to intellectual property development as unorthodox – it probably is. It reflects an “invent-to-patent” approach…
I spent the past three years starting Unicorn, Inc. quietly, doggedly focused on building a robust, strategically important patent position for my…
I love it when Anand Sanwal’s newsletter hits my in box, but last week one of them became ground-zero for…
There is a genesis to everything. An origin, the birth, that proverbial Eureka! moment. I’ve always hated the use of…
One of my other posts “20-20 hindsight-insight into a Unicorn” discussed the process of seeing the forward path (insight) to…
Startups are friggin’ hard. Some win despite incredible ineptitude. Some lose despite extreme effort and planetary alignment. A few startups…
I no longer build startups using a linear approach – that’s the process inherently integrated into canned startup business plan…
Frankly, I hate using the so overused “disruption” word. Every wannabe startup feels compelled to call itself “disruptive”, contrary to…
In the early Silicon Valley days, I bought a truckload of wood from a San Jose building supply company, and…