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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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When it goes public, a company must adopt a raft of policies and measures designed to comply with insider trading rules and tightly control disclosure of financial and other material non-public information that, if disclosed, could significantly alter the total mix of information available to those making investment decisions.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.) The most effective response is to beat the pants off the competition through brilliant product design, superior technology, clever marketing, strategic partnerships, swift execution, and so forth.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

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But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough.

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

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I’m no UI/UX designer or product manager, but I do work with entrepreneurs daily. If that’s just too complex a challenge for the state of the art in 2012, how about at least accepting PayPal ? All of the above isn’t mere venting. Of course it wouldn’t; that would make entirely too much sense.

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