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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

YoungUpstarts

Only install applications from trusted application “stores” Apple, Google, and RIM (Blackberry) all have a vested interest in offering secure software to their device owners. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. Don is helping evolve research operations and research technology in line with the growth of Malware.

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Getting Founders Some Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs

Hunter Walker

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. The vast majority of my future savings was (a) not vested yet and (b) tied to hope for future stock grants I’d earn. Did I work any less hard the next day because of my liquidity event?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Go vest yourself. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. Believing that any startup won’t have to deal with stock vesting issues is totally unrealistic.

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AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more.

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

blog.expensify.com

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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