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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. It should include doing background checks and reviewing their security rules and practices. Secure Code and Encryption The code is crucial for application security.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. software, songs, movies, web site content. _.

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SXSW Startups: Knowbella

Austin Startup

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Knowbella founder Jason Barkeloo answered some questions about his company. What is your competitive advantage?

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The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions

crowdSPRING Blog

Many people do not understand the law governing the use of typefaces and fonts. When you purchase a commercial font, you are purchasing a license to use the font software. The software that tells your display or printer to show a letter in “Helvetica&# is the font. What is copyright? For example, the U.S.

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The Law on Fonts and Typefaces in Design and Marketing: Frequently Asked Questions (about commercial and non-commercial use)

crowdSPRING Blog

The truth is that most people, and especially designers and marketers, do not understand the law governing the use of typefaces and fonts. The software that tells your display or printer to show a letter in “Helvetica” is the font. protects only the font software, not the artistic design of the typeface.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. peer review is NOT working. It was really the community who built that product.&#

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