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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Was there consumer demand? We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. It also happens to be how your car likely tells the distance to objects when you park or if you have a side assist whether you can change lanes safely. No brainer. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand. Let’s look at years 3-5 of the two companies.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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You own the IP you create. You end up needing to add staff and take on more risk without knowing what your future demand will be. My advice wasn’t to shut down all product / IP initiatives but rather to be clear on their purpose and how to monetize them. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Most won’t be of the quality that you want but you now have tons of material and inspiration for your show and you own all of the submitted IP. Here’s the thing – if well done I think you could see the Harlem Shake effect where many people want to have a go at participating on the production. And we watched. And watched.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It has the dual technology patrons and yet the consistent story I get is that they’re not actively out embracing the startup community, helping local successes emerge, getting comfortable with the symbiotic benefits of some employees going to startups that innovate at a different pace and then buying up local teams, talent & IP.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + Because over time users will demand open. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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