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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. In the meantime, we have what we have today. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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What Can a Startup Lawyer Help With?

The Startup Magazine

If your startup business has more than one founder, a Partnership Agreement, which is an operating agreement, is essential. Startup lawyers specializing in intellectual property (IP) can help you file relevant patent applications. SEC Regulations. Partnership Agreements. to resolve future conflicts. amongst others.

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

Agile VC

IP Litigation – EA is suing Zynga for copyright infringement , and regardless of the merits this is a headache Zynga will have to deal with and pay to defend itself. You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press. multiple (net of cash) of either adjusted EBITDA or operating cashflow.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. Unable to confirm if my proposed approach was correct, he indicated that he would have to check with his SEC group and that ‘someone’ would get back to me. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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NUTANIX POWERING THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING, STORAGE & DATACENTERS

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Local storage in servers was fast, but small, not fail-safe, and an island that necessitated heavy operational expenditure. Ethernet was too slow and too lossy to carry the SCSI (block-based) storage protocol over the wire; SCSI could never afford the latencies and the retries inherent in the TCP/IP/Ethernet stack.

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

techblog.netflix.com

There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over. 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.

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