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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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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. However, you should seek a patent attorney when it is time to craft your patent application. Save money on your office furniture, not on your IP lawyer.

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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. 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 !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

socalTECH

I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. The sort of support mechanisms and networks in place really are about pharmaceuticals, biomedical, and patents. So, I pulled up the UC Irvine faculty list, and started calling professors.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com" Sad but true.