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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Do you need to process user-contributed media? Tell me about the business. How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Who’s helping you with fundraising? What are your big milestones?

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Analytics On The Bleeding Edge: Transforming Data's Influence

Occam's Razor

Paid Media. Owned Media. power real-time actions and future decision using automation and algorithms. This is very hard to do, we now have a proven seven-step experimentation process, with one of the coolest algorithms to pick matched-markets (normally the kiss of death of any large-scale geo experiment). Ad unit types.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.

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Social Media:  Fixing a Fractured Community

The Startup Magazine

Blacklisting, shadow banning, and demonetizing by major search and social media platforms interfere with access to news and information. Data breaches combined with algorithms favoring shady third-party agreements that could expose consumer data leave people wondering how safe they are. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When you work with Twelve31 Media, you get a fresh start. Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #3- So, I kept it simple: my name and the work we do: Brill Media. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Thanks to Daniel Foley, Assertive Media ! #25-

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

ConversionXL

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. This explains more: [link] Whether something has a cost doesn't change how our systems work.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.