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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

He retrieved all documents by searching his email to find the one to which they were last attached, or, more often, he called me to re-send something and therefore move it up in his email stack. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. The World will conclude this list for today.

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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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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

www.humbledmba.com

I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless. Facebook wasnt the first to social networking, Google wasnt the first to search, YouTube wasnt the first to video, yada yada. I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. It rarely helps.

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

blog.expensify.com

LOL, I just realized the search on your site is powered by Bing… I believe this is what we call irony. 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. As somebody who is about 50/50.NET March 25, 2011 at 7:17 pm.

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