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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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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Since founding my business in 1981 as a typing and editing service, I’ve operated under many names/websites. For this work, I operate under the name Going Beyond Sustainability. an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! Thanks to Sara Chiarilli, Artful Conceptions ! #7- Photo Credit: Shel Horowitz.

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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. Jake Geleerd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC.

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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. The trick worked and the hyper-sophisticated AC system hummed into operation, but he was still challenged. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated. Lynne Johnson.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.

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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. We’ve changed the way industries operated to make them more human and minimise their externalities. They operate under a different set of rules, compared to mere mortals like us. But when the web 2.0 Bust our own myths.

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

blog.expensify.com

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. It’s an *freaking open source*.net What did we do?

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