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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Thanks, guys! Chris is focused, loyal, flexible, and kind to everyone around him.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In World War II the U.S.

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

Ben's Blog

Stanford was one of the first universities to create an Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), in 1970, to facilitate the legal transfer of intellectual property from academic to for-profit commercial activities. Technology transfer office.

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Which Is The Best Business Model For Your Startup – B2B Or B2C?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Another thing to remember is that when an industry goes global, the threat of losing money to intellectual-property theft skyrockets. Because there is no human interaction needed with most B2C product sales, the competitive landscape immediately goes global.

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Hey Graduates: Forget Plastics - It's All About Machine Learning

Seeing Both Sides

I still remember reading this profound question on December 24, 2007 in BusinessWeek's cover article on Google and cloud computing like it was yesterday. Each of these companies has based their intellectual property on sophisticated machine learning techniques developed by dozens of PhDs.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing.

Altgate

 Last year, I spent a lot of time attempting to reverse engineer  this data based on a small personal sample size. link] Marketing your Online Business – Effective Search Engine Optimization [.] link] Intellectual Property Law | Intellectual Property Rights [.]