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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! owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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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.

Stealth 90
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. 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. They’ve tried everything.

Java 107