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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis. He wanted to raise angel money. I finally called bullshit.

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

Feld Thoughts

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. The tax situation and cost of living in, say, South America, is much better than in the U.S. The outlook is bleak.

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