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JULY 12, 2012

Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. We arrived from Moscow on April 25th; the following day, I spoke on Raising Money to Go Global at StartSmart , a conference held at an incubator and innovation center named Technopolis Ülemiste.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question. This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Yet amidst all the partisan cheerleading and name-calling, there has been some discussion of substance. That presents the tech entrepreneurship community with a genuine opportunity to influence outcomes. One particular four-letter word has been used pervasively by candidates of all stripes: Jobs.

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MARCH 9, 2014

These founders need a reality check on what recognized brand names have spent to reach that threshold, and how long it is likely to take. Create referral marketing opportunities within your business community that maximize the potential for customer referrals. Establish partners and referrals.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

name of Angelsoft. richness of this community to life in this forum to exchange ideas and experiences in. I’m not referring to the use of viral media to spread good ideas; I’m referring to. the frequency with which old thoughts get re-packaged and spread, under new. authorship. Here at Gust we are truly writing a new story.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. I will leave it to law professor Eric Goldman to articulate better than I could why “ this law mortally threatens the entire UGC community.”

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