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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Brightmail did well on distribution, where it struck up partnerships with many leading internet service providers (ISPs), and also had decent gross margins.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. In 2004 I began blogging. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. That’s it. That’s what we do.