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Cliff Gross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
128 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Royalties vary depending upon the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Certain industries have razor-thin margins, as you know, and others are more lucrative, so you can have larger royalty rates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

So it really depends on the industry what the royalties are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

I think 5% would be the right ballpark.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Well, I guess if they could, they would.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

You know, it's a somewhat opportunistic market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

It's a buyer's market in general.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

If you step back and look at universities worldwide, they're producing more than 100,000 intellectual properties a year, and they have perhaps a million in inventory that have gone unsold or licensed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

So really, there's a big chasm between university IP and creating marketable technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And our job is to select properties, hopefully sagaciously, so we can help cross that chasm by adding value and making them ready to license or commercialize with large partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Less than a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And it's the University of Central Florida.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Uh, we, uh, we started the company in 2014 was incorporated and we did a listing on the aim, which is the junior market of the, uh, London stock exchange.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

And so our, our capital came from primarily from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

We don't need capital at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Business is really flying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

You know, in the first six months of this year, we did 3.8 million in sales and we made about a million and a half dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Our service revenue is up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

We have portfolio companies that are maturing very rapidly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

So the only time we'll actually go and get any additional capital is if there are opportunities that we want to sort of jump on that are beyond our current capital.