There are two very disturbing bills making their way through Congress: Protect IP Act (PIPA -  S.968 ) and Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA – H.R.3261 ). PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. In addition to being censorship bills, these are anti-entrepreneurship bills. MORE >>

If you didn't know the company was a demand-side energy technology company, you would think the above description applied to a Web 2.0 The post is a great one, and it raises something I've been thinking a bit about lately, which is whether the lean start-up approach to building start-ups can be applied to industries beyond Internet/software. MORE >>

This analogy carries through to due diligence: fixing a $20 rattling door handle preemptively removes that obstacle to a sale, just as cleaning up your startup’s capitalization table and IP assignment rights in advance will ensure the funding process goes that much smoother. Unfortunately, I cannot make it much less fuzzy. They dazzle. MORE >>

Here's why protecting your IP should stay off your to-do list. The real cost of getting a patent You have to design an IP protection policy around your business, not the other way around. Protecting IP can wait Patents can offer value to companies. Your No. job is to get to market and start making money. John D. MORE >>

Meanwhile about 40,000 people got law degrees  even though demand for lawyers has been shrinking. I’d also argue that if you are a non-technical person working at a web company the the first thing you should learn is internet architecture (DNS, http, html, web servers, database, TCP/UDP, IP, etc). Jobs & the economy. MORE >>