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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? How are you funding this?

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies.

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Will hundreds of new domains complicate your online trademarks?

Tech Zulu Event

.” Whether trademark holders submit their own trademarks to the Clearinghouse, or get help from a verified agent, the same process applies: The TMCH verifies both that a trademark is valid and that the company is actively using it. The TMCH gives the company an SMD file, which establishes the company as the trademark owner.

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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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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

The technically savvy reader, familiar with my attitude, has already figured out that I’ve read way too many raw logs. ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. googlebot.com&#.