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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy » 24 Responses Tweets that mention Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! This time it was serious.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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Five signs it’s time to get your business organized

www.greenhornconnect.com

Submitted by Jason Evanish on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 8:31am. 1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business. 21) December 2009. (19) Discussion.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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5 Startup Steps to finding & working with freelancers

nickpoint.co.uk

Through LinkedIn we identified 12 local freelancers for our front-end web design/dev work. We’ve now experienced working with logo designers and Keegan is an experienced designer with flare. On the design side of things (logos, business cards, web design etc) how do you/anyone else feel about using students?

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. An alternative to participating in FCF, a “subscription designation,” allowed Googlebot to crawl an 80-word snippet of an article, which served as the sole source of ranking material.).

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Announcing K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed stage fund

K9 Ventures

is a $6.25M fund that is designed to do concept and seed-stage investments in technology companies. Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. The first closing for the fund was held in Q2 2009. I’m pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures, L.P. – a seed-stage fund. K9 Ventures, L.P.