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IP Law: Protect Your Killer Idea, or Get Killed

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 -- IP Law: Protect Your Killer Idea, or Get Killed. Protecting IP is crucial to the success of your business. This workshop is designed to teach entrepreneurs the practical implications of protecting intellectual property. But, how do you do it? And what happens if you?re re careless?

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Green LAVA

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, February 17, 2012 -- Green LAVA Meeting. But how to overcome the risks in politics, government relationships and IP protection remains a hurdle for U.S. Green Tech Fund California, Inc. will discuss opportunities for clean tech in the Chinese and India markets.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is a media and digital media entrepreneur, senior executive, negotiator and dealmaker with an unbroken track record of success in start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as major and independent media companies.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Venture Capital.

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