By guest author Tony Scott Looking to the Future Tony: If you think about five years from now and say: “My vision of the work we will be doing and of my company five years from now is going to look like this,” what do you think you are going to look like? Anand: We
Trademarkia is a startup search engine providing the largest free global search engine for registered trademarks on the Internet. The company has licensed the trademark database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and provide all of that office’s data, updated daily, in a graphical context. It has also licensed historical trademark data
SM: Have you done demographic analysis to determine your gallery locations? TM: I have tried. I opened galleries in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Dallas, Texas, both with partners. The Steamboat Springs gallery is still doing well while the one in Dallas closed. It was not as simple as just looking at demographics.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You do track your returns internally, right? And it’s about 20%? Randy: That study was done to the end of 2007. We founded it in September 2000, so it was a seven-year study. The next study is being done right now, and that study will be
By guest author Tony Scott The ODM Model – Will It Happen for Software? Tony: Building products faster at a lower cost because you have in-depth expertise in a market segment and are componentizing part of the product development process – it’s going back to your example of Flextronics for software. Will we see ODMs
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SM: What were they numbers like for your Park City gallery? What did real estate cost, and what were you trying to make in terms of revenue? TM: We had incredible traffic because we were on Main Street and we stayed open late. We were still open after dinner, so we had people coming in
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any advice for angel-backed companies? What should they do to increase their chances of success? Randy: Number one, they need to truly integrate and meet the members of the forums that they may be going to and in their markets they know of.