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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. If high U.S. However, the U.S.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about how they came up with a business name, and here are their responses. #1-

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Trick 1: Pay excessive amounts for rights to use brands names, intellectual property or other non physical assets the parent company owns. Oh, and a ‘Related Party’ is essentially ‘them’. Tricks Multinationals do to avoid tax.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. I’ve been very public about how much I think the term “Silicon” in front of every city name is a waste. Co-Working Space.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. Each new node buddies up and splits the data and load of one of the existing nodes so that data doesnt have to be reshuffled too much.

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