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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys!

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. Personally I feel the 'convey meaning but are made up words' approach are a marketing nightmare. It depends on how complex your *written* marketing strategy plan (you have one, right?) don't be extreme.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Selling those things at the flea market on the weekend. Was selling sort of thrift store level things at a flea market. He was our IP attorney. That thesis to us, doesn't feel controversial.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Tiny, contracting market. Huge upfront software licensing fees. works with the massive market that is YouTube.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Market maturity: Conversely, competitors are investing in a new featureset and thus, they’ve become table stakes. Market share: You may already be a category leader, and growth requires you to expand into new verticals. This is especially true if you’ve found a better way of solving it than existing products in the market.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. Big ideas and creative stuff either aren’t coming out of the.NET world, or.NET based projects/startups suck at marketing. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Help your business out.

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