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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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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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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Once I developed the fabric I wanted it to have a name that was memorable, and that described it in one word. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. While developing the app and starting the company, I was stuck for a name. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. While it doesn’t eliminate great investor judgment, pattern recognition skills and mentoring, we’ve developed an Investment Readiness Level tool that fills in these missing pieces. Therapeutics. Diagnostics.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

Friday - May 27, 2005 at 09:21 AM in. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * This last point is intriguing since, as my VP of Development puts it, "Perl is the duct tape of programming languages." Gourmet Customer Service. buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently Categories. Statistics.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr. Chernesky held management positions at Intel in areas such as intellectual property licensing and business development.

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