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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name.

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Are You An Internet Entrepreneur In Colorado? Oppose PIPA!

Feld Thoughts

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. This success story rests on an architecture—both technical and legal—that has allowed for innovation without permission.

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6 Surveillance Camera Systems For Commercial Use

YoungUpstarts

While hired security guards, a close proximity to police, and guard dogs might work for some estates and businesses, camera surveillance is the most effective way to deter unlawful behavior. Pelco Spectra HD IP High-Speed Dome Camera. For a crystal-clear image on your IP camera, the Pelco Spectra never fails to deliver.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * They are actively hiring Perl programmers. In other words, theyll use Voice-over-IP technology to provide all the technical infrastructure of a call center (automated self service, agent queueing, etc.) on a hosted basis.

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Lying on your resume

Steve Blank

But instead the minute I said, “my first startup used CATV coax to implement a local-area network for process control systems (which 35 years ago pre-Ethernet and TCP/IP was pretty cutting edge.) In fact he had to convince the VP of Marketing who didn’t want to hire you. Finally I got to sit down. That’s it?? Did I get the job or not?

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18 Top A/B Testing Tools Reviewed by CRO Experts

ConversionXL

Though you could hire someone full time to sift through and analyze the pros and cons of each tool, it’s easier to learn from the experience of others and make a decision based on that. There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values.

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How Decisions Define Our Business Destiny

Duct Tape Marketing

So it could be a sweeping turn, like a new product launch or, you know, refocusing your company, or it could be a minor turn like, uh, or a less sweeping turn like who you hire or who you fire or how you price your products.