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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) What are some examples of similar brands? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Graphic design?

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

Examples of bots include those used by the search engines. This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string. The IP address is a series of 4 numbers separated by dots.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. Once you draft the straightforward text, sans the legal mumbo-jumbo, ask your lawyer to review the text to ensure your layman descriptions do not result in an unintended interpretation.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ).

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.