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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren’t interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5% of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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Internet scale. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). The example chart is not actually atypical. Growth matters.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins). So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

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If YouTube really cares about dominating the future of Internet video it should take less because at 45% it will only encourage video producers to seek alternate distribution and will make it easier for competitors to emerge. Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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It was then popularized into an Internet meme 3 days later by text an Australian group of guys called Sunny Coast Shake in what garnered about 300,000 views in a short period of time (now at 11.3 most Internet connections have been asymmetric & optimized for downloads). million views). means specifically one thing. Think Zork.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.