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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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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. Buttercloth was born.

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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. * In other words, theyll use Voice-over-IP technology to provide all the technical infrastructure of a call center (automated self service, agent queueing, etc.) Gourmet Customer Service. Categories.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Competing businesses.

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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. Most NDAs I have seen are very one-sided and have unreasonable time limits, which in the tech sector are sometimes moot. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live. I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. It is possible and he’s showing people that.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. Dont do what we did.

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