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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. execs involved.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

It didn't take much searching to find out that the drug had been tested against SARS-CoV-1 (known to non-scientists as SARS, the 2003 pandemic ) and had proved effective against the replication of that virus. Akash Bakshi : I would say the YC network has been super helpful, I think our partner, Jared, biopartner, Uri, PB, Sam Altman.