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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. Better than switching off features! App-specific metrics. Pretty standard.

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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

You wouldnt believe how many people loose the valuable IP by putting way to much info in their project descriptions. Should be a simple $50 to $100 script. go to both www.elance.com www.rentacoder.com create user accounts and list your project. list a brief outline of the script you need created. not giving out too much information.

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Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.

Occam's Razor

Innocent on the other hand clearly understands Conversational Marketing (they are a small company, not yet corporatized I suspect, and likely deal with a smaller combination of lawyers/PR types/Social Media Gurus/Agencies – a sad likely bane on Tide's existence).

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