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How to Ensure Your Business Stays on The Right Side of the Law

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Employee Laws: Keeping the Peace in Your Small Kingdom If you’ve got employees, you’re not just a business owner; you’re the ruler of a small (or not so small) kingdom. Intellectual Property: Guard Your Treasures In the age of information, your business’s intellectual property (IP) is like buried treasure.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

Dickinson: You’ve got 3 local Public employee unions (patent office professionals, and the national telecommunications industry association-two chapters). Kappos: 95% of our employees are union members. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. 9 is annual litigation seminar.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

This offers ample space for corporate partners to grow nearby with connectivity to NYC and many potential employees/interns from Yale. It would be ideal if Yale built a similar tool which allowed students to filter for companies with a) quality teams, b) >10 employees, c) backed by a credible VC, and d) (optional) a Yale cofounder.

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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. Gelie: So you sign up for free, and you get your passport and now you can attend different chamber mixers and all this other good stuff, different educational seminars.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor. A company needs to learn how to lift themselves, their clients and their employees up, while incorporating digital strategy tactics that will excel in ways that no company or individual thought was possible. So ultimately, it was a bad name.

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