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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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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. I lost my husband Rob to depression in 2003, when he was just 42 years old. Thanks to, Conure, LLC ! Thanks to Tomoko Omori, Go!

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. Second Life has been around since 2003, has over 30m registered users of which about 500k are active monthly. PubG alone has generated over $1 Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Employment.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. � Howard Aiken. irregulator. | Kenyatta Cheese.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing

Both Sides of the Table

I ran a marathon with my colleague in 2003 – I’m still bummed that he beat me even though he was clearly more athletic. 6 months afterwards they laid off 75% of their staff and are existing on fumes to protect their IP to this day. If you’re way better than me, I’m probably not playing.

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Bad Notes on VC

Gust

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. You’ll find out the minimum when the next round is raised. Employment.