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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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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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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. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.?

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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

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. He was our IP attorney. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” I want you to leave your job, where you’re getting free meals, where you’re living and working around a bunch of other software engineers.

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

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Joel Martinez.

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