Here are a few ideas: - Selling enterprise software (you can make 10%-20% of an 8 or 9 figure deal) - Selling securities in some form or another (you make ~5% of deals worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars) - high leverage consulting (solving very hard tech problems for lots of people. for example: I have a friend who helps a whole bunch of computer vision companies and makes a ton. Another friend is an S…
Would you mind sharing some more about how your friend monetized his patent? I'm in a somewhat similar situation (except it's a hardware patent, not software) and would love to learn from a success story. Alternatively I can reach you out-of-band (let me know what's your preferred contact method), or you can ping me at bgxvsp at hotmail. Thanks!