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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Sudden change.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. TechCrunch.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Most NDAs I have seen are very one-sided and have unreasonable time limits, which in the tech sector are sometimes moot. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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