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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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What Businesses Need To Know In The Wake Of The Equifax Breach

YoungUpstarts

And the Equifax breach is likely to exacerbate this trend, potentially flooding the dark web with names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account. They then make purchases with a stored payment method or drain value from the user’s account.

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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. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. I’ve been very public about how much I think the term “Silicon” in front of every city name is a waste.

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Flings Pop-Up Recycling and Trash Bins

Feld Thoughts

A few years ago, several friends started a company called Evergreen IP to help inventors commercialize their consumer innovations. First off, how could you NOT love a company named TrashCo? Seriously, what a great name. I wonder if they know that one of the early names (at least in my head) for Foundry Group was VentureCo.

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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO

konamoxt.com

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. I’m on the Board of Advisers of several other startup companies in the Seattle area. Life is good at Konamoxt.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. or Seattle.

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