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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? It’s lost salary for a period of time. Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. And I’ll take the risk.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. Like with more people who are not taking salary, you can literally do twice as much. But they had the exact same problem. That they had to sell the band on it. Jason: Right?

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake.

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

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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