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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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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

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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. By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. � Howard Aiken. irregulator. | Leave a comment.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

The new sales team, under Omid Kordistani, was off to a strong start selling keywords to large brands and placing the results at the top of the search results, highlighted as an ad, but still very prominent, much in the style that had been done in search results at other companies, including at Netscape where Omid came from.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). Our product is fairly complex and Matt also nails the budget pretty well. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). And as soon as an email address is entered, the app can automatically store it and search the web for relevant info that’s linked to that email address (e.g. sales, support, etc.),

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

I think, if you can swing it, the first round of the core technology / IP should be developed by the founders. When you set out to write your functional spec, you need to follow a clear structure so that your developers understand what you are saying. but you at least have it exactly as you wish.

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