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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. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and was a golf instructor at Club Med in Mexico and the Bahamas.

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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

if your model requires a “network effect&# to get to where you’re product is useful — foursquare, multiplayer games, sharing apps in general — then freemium if for sure the way to go. Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. The Rails 1.0

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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. The reason is simple: network effects. Metcalfe’s law states that a network’s power is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network. But when the web 2.0 Bust our own myths. Even if you wanted to.