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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

IP & Protected Personal Information Theft. Update to the IP Commission Report: The Theft of American Intellectual Property: Reassessments of the Challenge and United States Policy ” The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property , 2017. Graff, “ China’s Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout ” WIRED , Feb.

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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. And one time, I personally got served with a claim that a freelancer had stolen IP and we were being sued for ~$60k. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. In the past I’ve acquired an offshore company in China after working together for about a year, that worked well, gave us the chance to get to know each other and protected our IP. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager.

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Your core competency and why not to stray

Berkonomics

Which of your IP assets is your core? From administrative services supplied by personal assistants located in India, to designers and producers of prototypes in China, to call centers managed and located in the Philippines, there are efficient, well organized solutions for virtually every process needed by a company to surround its core.

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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

Paying above the local market rate, transferring lots of small payments that lead to the same IP address, etc. To do it, they engage with a friend on the Philippines, Mr ‘’A’’, who has registered a software company locally. are tactics often used by the criminals. Slave Labor.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. I’ve certainly heard of your company here in the Philippines– and yes! of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it takes no intelligence. What did we do?

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