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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. Few people have it. I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

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And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. What Bilski means for software is that the advantages of starting software businesses abroad have become even more clear.

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