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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

Nowhere is this more striking than in matters involving intellectual property and the rights of content owners. As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

I’m a tech co-founder in internet startups and after you’ve co-founded a few ventures you definitely have a much more of an appreciation for what’s required to make a startup work at the technical level – it’s certainly not just a software engineer. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

Either way the "one stop shop" model went out with portals in 1998. internet technology. That business is called Google and now they’re the largest internet company in the world, still headquartered in California with over 19,000 employees. grants and navigate intellectual property rules. continued to expand.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. This doesnt work well.

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