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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” And for students of economics, you see the cost curve. Your marginal costs and your average costs of building software do not go down over time.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

In this post, we’re sharing a build vs. buy framework to help you consider the opportunity costs and make an informed decision on whether to buy software off the shelf or build a custom solution. Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. The scope of the project.