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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. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

Right now, somewhere on the Internet, there is a discussion board or a chat room where people are arguing about how much education is needed to be a software developer. When I see a BS from someplace like University of Illinois or Stanford, I believe the probability of ending up with a successful employee in the future is higher.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. . Software. -

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Host a Livestream of The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

For the 2010 and 2011 Lean Startup conferences , we offered the complete conference for simulcast so that people could join in from their communities around the world. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities. BTW, you can read more about why in Brad Feld's new book, Startup Communities.)

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