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Why A Cellular Carrier Did Not Buy Skype - Watching A Big Dumb Company Fail In Real Time

InfoChachkie

billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. Cool stuff for circa 2005, unless you were an idiot working for a cellular carrier. In the course of one meeting, I observed the following trifecta of stupidity. Witnessing The Idiot’s Dilemma.

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

InfoChachkie

Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. IP Risk – The closer the Serial Team’s new adVenture is to their prior successes, the greater the risk that they may be accused of infringing on their former company’s intellectual property (IP). John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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. Of course a lot of this also comes down to investor trust.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !==

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Of course I have. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week.