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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? But make it competitive. Here’s a hack for you.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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The next time they came back they had changed their business plan to become a variable rate pricing mechanism for image owners to sell to websites and had created an image-based ad-network platform for remnant photos. What if keyword buyers had more choice than just buying expensive and competitive terms through Google?&#.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. Data centers are a strategic layer of the value chain: data center efficiencies and deployments are some of Google’s key competitive advantages and trade secrets. Just imagine if ISPs imposed a cost of $.02

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

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The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! You get a list or map of hotels that you can filter by price and rating. Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k. That is some serious cash! Technologies used: NodeJS and MongoDB.

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