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How to Ensure Your Business Stays on The Right Side of the Law

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Taxes: The Government’s Subscription Service Taxes are kind of like the subscription service you never signed up for but can’t unsubscribe from. Intellectual Property: Guard Your Treasures In the age of information, your business’s intellectual property (IP) is like buried treasure.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. The “value” case goes like this: A) Valuation Net of Cash – Zynga’s market cap sits at around $2.2-2.3B

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Corporate Bad Activity Against Innovators

Feld Thoughts

I was going to write about how the FCC’s potential action on net neutrality could seriously jeopardize Internet innovation, but Fred Wilson beat me to it (he’s got an east coast time advantage over me) with a phenomenal post titled The Fast Lane, The Slow Lane, and The No Lane. Please don’t pretend that you are surprised.

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There’s an Internet Showdown Brewing

Andrew Payne

This scenario captures a core net neutrality concern: are we moving to an Internet where our access is determined more by business agendas and less by technical issues? Your next TV will likely be 4K with IP-delivered video. Back home in West Virginia, our Verizon phones have no 3G service. down 14% for Verizon in one month).

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There’s an Internet Showdown Brewing

Andrew Payne

This scenario captures a core net neutrality concern: are we moving to an Internet where our access is determined more by business agendas and less by technical issues? Your next TV will likely be 4K with IP-delivered video. Back home in West Virginia, our Verizon phones have no 3G service. down 14% for Verizon in one month).

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world.