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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. Danica is an entertainment, intellectual property and new media attorney with Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP.

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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. Yet the content industry (principally represented by RIAA and MPAA) has been relentless in pushing for UGC site operators to be deputized in a copyright police state in the interest of fighting piracy.

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Uber Needs to Transition from “Pirate” to “Navy”

Reid Hoffman

The startups that are creating currencies and holding ICOs are operating in a grey area, and are likely breaking rules. Dara has a reputation for running a no-drama operation (a classic naval leader, in other words). A unified executive team to coordinate global operations, including the activity of the individual country managers.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. We were a company whose wholem.o.

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