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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. Intellectual property theft. Furthermore, the Insurance Information Institute estimates that close to 40% of small business owners have no insurance at all. Violet Stephens started Proje Inc. Loss of key employee.

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

David Teten

. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. Since it is Excel based, we’re not giving up any intellectual property. They have something around 20 employees. Do the math: 10k users don’t take a lot of support, done properly. Both had to scale up.)

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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. To simply connect to the web with dial up took ‘minutes’ and now it takes 4 seconds to download a 2 hour movie using 5g. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. But when the web 2.0