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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | ASK THE VC MARCH 13, 2012 Parker: Open Source and For-Profit Companies On the heels of Yahoo suing Facebook for patent infringement followed by Tim Armstrong at AOL saying “hey Wall Street – look at me – I’ve got great patents also “, Andrew Parker (Spark) wrote a post that brought me out of my “intellectual property depression” titled Open Source and For-Profit Companies. | | | | | | |
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IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011  Don’t Destroy the Value of Your Software
Because of the complicated nature of IP laws, many companies have a muddled IP mess and have destroyed the value of the core software. Don’t Require Assignment of IP Rights To Your Company. If you don’t own the IP rights to the software, you can’t sell it. And don’t think you can hide the open source code. MORE >> -
STARTUPCFO | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012  Getting Due Diligence Ready
The most important ones by far: Intellectual property and IP assignment : make sure every current and former employee and subcontractor / consultant has signed a document assigning all IP rights to the company. Open source exposure : Everything is built on top of open source technologies today. MORE >> -
IP LAW FOR STARTUPS | TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011  My Website’s Software Foundation: Do I Own the Code or Can I Sell My Site?
If your business is based on your website, and someday you want to sell your business or your site, the IP rights and licenses to the website’s software foundation are important. You need to consider the following questions: 1) Do I exclusively own the underlying IP rights to the site’s foundational software? MORE >> -
FELD THOUGHTS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011  PBS Newshour on Accelerators
This makes me happy as part of our goal when we started TechStars was to “ open- source” the mentor driven accelerator process. PBS Newshour has a neat eight minute segment on accelerators. TechStars is featured, along with several others. The punch line from the interview is in the first 30 seconds. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012  Clean Up Before Raising Funding
Deal with IP Assignment as quickly as possible; you don’t want to leave any loopholes in there that will scare investors away. Contractors need to sign proper agreements, with non-disclosures and IP assignment. (Powered by LaunchBit ). Raising money is a dirty job, but someone has to do it right? Get your house in order. MORE >>
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- Lessons Learned: The lean startup STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
- How To Predict The Future FELD THOUGHTS | FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012
- Patent Research Just Got Easier FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012
- Replicating PostgreSQL with Bucardo GABRIEL WEINBERG | SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
- GitHub: Turning a Nerdy Hobby Into $750 Million Business FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013
- Big Data: Overhyped And Overpaid? READWRITE.COM | FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013
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- Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable CHRIS DIXON | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012
- IBC 2011 Attracts 28 Israeli Media and Mobile Startups to Amsterdam VC CAFE | THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
- Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second TECHBLOG.NETFLIX.COM | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
- How To Bootstrap Your Startup WWW.READWRITEWEB.COM | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2007
- How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps READWRITESTART | SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2011
- Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
- Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data CRACKING THE CODE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012
- Startup Resources WWW.VCCAFE.COM | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013
- Hacking Innovation Education in New York THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
- The Road Map of a Start-Up and the Entrepreneur - Part 4 of 4 RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
- CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers BLOG.EXPENSIFY.COM | TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
- The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
- How to Start a Startup WWW.PAULGRAHAM.COM | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
- Bad Technology That Won't Die FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
- What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business MASHABLE.COM | WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012
- Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding MASHABLE.COM | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010
- Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time MASHABLE.COM | TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010
- Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business SOFTWARE BY ROB | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009
- 7 Ways Nokia Can Win Again ARCTICSTARTUP | FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010
- Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup MASHABLE.COM | FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010
- 11 Trends in Web Logo Design MASHABLE.COM | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
- Eric Sink. Things I learned in selling Teamprise to Microsoft. Video & transcript. BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
- 6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups MASHABLE.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010
- Why Venture Capitalists Avoid Innovation: They Like Making Money ONSTARTUPS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010
- Series Seed Financing Documents WWW.SERIESSEED.COM | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012
- Stealth Mode Startup WWW.FROZENNORTH.ORG | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- Will the real standard terms please stand up? GABRIEL WEINBERG | MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
- Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity GRASSHOPPERHERDER.COM | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
- There is always new technology. When should we care? How do we take advantage of it? Dan Bricklin video & transcript at Business of Software 2010. BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011
- Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion NEWS.YCOMBINATOR.COM | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
- Product Management 101 PLATFORMS AND NETWORKS | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2012
- Burnham's Beat: Top 10 Software Stocks of 2006 BURNHAM'S BEAT | FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2007
- Burnham's Beat: Fortune Magazine Fight Fest: Private Equity vs. VC BURNHAM'S BEAT | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
- Burnham's Beat: SkyGrid and the Emergence of Flow-Based Search BURNHAM'S BEAT | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2008
- Burnham's Beat: Top 10 Best and Worst Internet Stocks of 2009 BURNHAM'S BEAT | FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2010
- Burnham's Beat: The Algorithm Myth And Why Google Will Be Hated BURNHAM'S BEAT | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010
- Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time MASHABLE.COM | TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010
- 11 Trends in Web Logo Design MASHABLE.COM | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
- Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding MASHABLE.COM | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010
- Is Google Chrome Making the URL Obsolete? KEVIN DEWALT | MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008
- Christine: Nonprofits Using VoIP for Advocacy, Outreach, and Service Delivery CHRISTINE.NET | FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006
- Building an Open Source Business WILL PRICE | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006
- The Three Most Important Letters in Open Source: CYA WILL PRICE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2007
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John Morris