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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group.

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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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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. The underlying requirement based on those assumptions was an available bandwidth of about 1.6mb/sec, which we would hit in 2005.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

Friday - May 27, 2005 at 09:21 AM in. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * In other words, theyll use Voice-over-IP technology to provide all the technical infrastructure of a call center (automated self service, agent queueing, etc.) Gourmet Customer Service. Categories.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural. But I stuck to my gut feelings.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Diagnostics. You can see the entire presentation here.

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