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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren’t interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5% of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius. He has also sailed a boat across the Atlantic.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

Companies on the west coast ideally located in Los Angeles or San Francisco. Thomas says the maximum size of an angel round he’ll invest in is $2.5M. soft circle : when an angel gives a verbal commitment to invest but hasn’t actually signed any legal documents or written a check. 3 things that excite Mark (1:18:06).

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. Los Angeles St. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test.

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Small Business Guide To Protecting Data From Disasters

YoungUpstarts

If an earthquake strikes a business’ headquarters in Los Angeles and that firm keeps all of its content on on-premises storage, then the loss of data can potentially ruin the entire firm. The cloud is ideally suited because it provides businesses with offsite redundant storage.