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7 Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Crowdfunding School

Startup Professionals Musings

Keep all IP details close to the vest. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/17/2016. Crowdfunding platforms don’t have the facilities to handle non-disclosure agreements that you might expect from every professional investor. Don’t forget to account for the time and cost of crowdfunding campaigns.

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5 Legal Requirements to Keep in Mind for Your Small Business Website

Up and Running

In the latest court proceedings, such as the lawsuit filed against Dominos in 2016 , the rulings have recommended the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 However, through several legal proceedings, it has been determined that websites can be considered as “places of public accommodation.”.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses. Let’s look at each figure. years to grow its user base 4x. Manipulate, share from the phone.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It was 2016. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. So people could know that we have a.co and not.com I started referring to our business as BrillMedia.co as the official name. Thanks to Robert Brill, BrillMedia.co ! #4- 4- Short form of two words. Buttercloth was born.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

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. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Block sketchy IP addresses.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I had served as P+B’s West Coast Director for 3 1/2 years, acquiring the company at the end of 2016. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. Thanks to, Conure, LLC !

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