Monthly Archives: March 2015

How to Avoid Spending a Lot of Money Hiring an IP Lawyer like Erik Birkeneder

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Erik Birkeneder is not your stereotypical lawyer. He’s more like Marshall from “How I Met your Mother.” He’s a really nice guy, loves helping people, and from the midwest. But he’s also a smart and savvy IP lawyer. He specializes in patents related to medicine and bioengineering and is talking to us today about what people can do to protect themselves from getting sued for patent infringement and some common mistakes he sees people make in this area. This interview will be especially relevant for first-time entrepreneurs.

Building a Graph of People’s Love for Products

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When I first moved to Los Angeles about 7 years ago, I missed the startup culture I left in the bay area. The LA startup scene was pretty small at the time. There were a few intimate meetup groups where people quickly got to know each other. That’s how I met Jose daVeiga. It was a Saturday afternoon while I was on the way to the beach, stopping into a meetup event to eat some pizza and drink some beer. My friend came over to me and told me I should meet a guy she just met as we had a lot in common. Jose has a love for science and startups. He’s worked on a number of startups and currently funded by Technicolor Ventures to build Into, a company that creates a social graph of people’s interest in products.

The Role of Psychology in Children’s Health

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This week we talked with Dr. Marshall Seligmann. He’s a pediatrician who also has his feet in technologies and startups. He studied psychology in college so he’s a great person for us to interview because he can teach pediatricians and parents about the behavioral medical issues we see in kids.

Succeeding as a Woman in Male-Dominated Worlds

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Luba Kagan is the Investor Network Director at StartUp Health, a global platform for health & wellness technology enabled startups. She connects VCs, corporate investors, and angels with strategic investment opportunities. She is also an active coach for Healthcare Transformers in the StartUp Health community focusing on capitalization, fundraising, and strategies designed to drive equity value creation. As a successful woman in male-dominated fields, we’re excited to hear her perspective and advice.

Using Image Recognition Software to Find Your Soulmate… and for Social Good

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This week’s guest is Justin Long, a researcher and engineer at 3 Tier Logic. As you may have read in recent coverage on Justin’s Tinderbox project, he has figured out a way to automate dating apps like Tinder using image-recognition algorithms, saving time and, as we’ll hear about today, planting the seed for future work in image recognition outside of online dating.