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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

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Go BIG Network This site helps investors, startups, service providers, and advisors find each other. Startups can sign up to have their projects advertised to compatible investors or search through a 20,000-investor database. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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2) Check the competition in the TESS gov't database for trademarks/service marks - www.uspto.gov/ebc/tess/index.html ; again are they i same industry or different (do this for taglines too). 3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. And Good luck!

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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

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But Colleen Chien, IP expert and law professor at Santa Clara University, said Facebook "needs all the patents it can get, especially now after (its battle) with Yahoo.". The USPTO patent assignee database reveals that than 500 patents (512) came to Facebook direct from AOL with the last week. The patent is broad.

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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

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But at least one IP expert said Facebook needs all the patents it can get. According to IP experts, it's not uncommon to persist in getting a patent. The USPTO patent assignee database reveals that than 500 patents (512) came to Facebook direct from AOL with the last week. The patent is broad. And the effort finally paid off.

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Cybersecurity: What Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know

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Additionally, an IT professional is your best resource for downloading patches, updates and other security enhancements as they become available, as well as providing support for email, voice over IP (VoIP) and virtual private networks (VPNs). FTP, SSH, and cPanel), along with your database and administrator accounts.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

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New technology is allowing for computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases. Historically, searches for online images have been accomplished by searching for the meta-data associated with the image – the tags and words used to describe the picture.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

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For instance, with a social network, a user would fill out a registration form to inform the organization that they would like to join. For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup.

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