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Tips For Protecting Intellectual Property

YoungUpstarts

Your patents will have more support when your IP is seen online often. Open-Source IP. A great way to give your IP and ideas a competitive advantage is to open-source them.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . Bitcoin is dominant on this front (especially in emerging markets on both centralized exchanges and p2p platforms like LocalBitcoins , HodlHodl , and Bisq ).

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . With Flexible VC, not every company is expected to achieve breakout growth, but that possibility is accounted for up front. . Flexible VC offers you this.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

So, instead of trying to wow the community with how smart your professors are or the IP you have in house, start position yourselves to ask questions, learn, and participate as peers in a changing world. 3) Open source your real estate. 2) Eliminate the friction by empowering your people.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

In short, Snap faces an extremely tough battle in which they are both under resourced and in which they must catch up on many fronts. Although they’ll likely fork Android, which is open source, for basic OS components, Snap doesn’t have anywhere near the level of cloud services footprint that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook do.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Act Now, Do Delay Fortunately, there’s an interesting option that can put you in the front of the line come January. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. And as state offices grapple with budget shortfalls and employee cuts, wait times will only get longer. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Act Now, Do Delay Fortunately, there’s an interesting option that can put you in the front of the line come January. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. And as state offices grapple with budget shortfalls and employee cuts, wait times will only get longer. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar.

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