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ArmorWay: Applying Computer Game Theory To Real Life Problems

socalTECH

What we bring to the table is competitive analytics, where we consider your security adversary, and figure how they are trying to break your system, under different scenarios, and recommend a plan which optimizes your security strategy. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007. You can''t do it in real time.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. particularly with international patent laws. Yes, I did say competition.

Startup 40
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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. It's also good to talk somewhat about the competition, and why this ideas is different from the others. Rick Smith: I would say, at a slightly higher level, is passion.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► March (2) 4.

Startup 40
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.