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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. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play.

IPO 110
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A Self-Publication Gold Rush? | Disrupting Higher Education | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Campus Entrepreneurship

En route to a professorship of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, Clay Spinuzzi published scholarly monographs with the MIT Press 2003 and Cambridge University Press 2008. Campus as Market Campus Eco-System Disruption in Higher Education Global Higher Education Intellectual Property Research'

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. Tell me a bit about your background. You are writing about the essentials of business.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. Texas is business and tax friendly Many people know that Texas has no corporate income tax and no personal income tax.

Texas 90
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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

— Frank Sculli co-founded of BioDigital , in 2003 to build a kind of flight simulator for doctors that would be used to train them in specific medical procedures. I will emphasize to pay attention to intellectual property issues as early on as you can. Frank : You can describe it that way.

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The 22 Best Blogs to Help Grow Your Business (That You May Not Be Reading)

Up and Running

Fred Wilson is a widely known blogger and Venture Capitalist who’s been publishing posts daily since 2003. From discussions about ad pricing to intellectual property, it’s a smorgasbord of topics and users from various backgrounds. AVC’s MBA Mondays | Fred Wilson. r/Entrepreneur. r/SmallBusiness.

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Everything Marketers Need To Know To Avoid Violating Copyright Law

crowdSPRING Blog

Before founding crowdSPRING , I was a trial attorney focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail. I created this guide to help marketers understand the basics of copyright law.