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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The company logo was designed to include the various colors of jade. 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. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York. Accountability.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

#6- To portray importance of the artistic side of interior design when working on a project. I came up with the name Artful Conceptions because I wanted to portray how important the artistic side of interior design is when working on a project. – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing).

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. total funding $1.7 My-Wardrobe.

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

David Teten

Earlier in his tenure at IV, Mr. Barhydt successfully designed and implemented the targeted patent acquisition program and developed processes and metrics to improve licensing operations. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr. Chernesky held management positions at Intel in areas such as intellectual property licensing and business development.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. I guess the design will go to my grave with me. or Portland.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. But the items aren’t real (brands and IP) and don’t exist in the real world – they live in the ether to purely move money around. Designed by experts, enforced by government, written for people, in language everyone can understand.

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

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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