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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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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. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

As it is with most teenagers, the concept of intellectual property didn’t exactly dominate Fanning’s thinking at the time, although, in his defense, it is unlikely that he could have predicted how popular Napster would become — or how many people would try to sue him for copyright infringement.

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

David Teten

. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.

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Q: Is it fake? A: Who cares? (You should!)

Austin Startup

C – James Frey’s 2005 best-selling memoir “A Million Little Pieces&# – if you never actually watched his interview with Oprah , it’s spell-binding. Set popular media to the side for a moment, and let’s talk about other engines of Austin’s success – silicon, software and information technology.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Technology transfer office.