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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. Definitely read the whole thing.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. Definitely read the whole thing.

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Are NDAs Worth Much?

Tech Zulu Event

While there are definitely potential benefits, NDAs also have several often overlooked caveats. Signaling — An NDA puts other parties on notice that your IP is valuable, not lightly shared, and that you intend to defend it and your business. That said, NDAs should never take the place of solid IP protection. The Benefits.

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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz

socalTECH

If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. What's the technology behind this? Eric Frankel: It was "be careful what you wish for".

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. 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. You definitely don't get a free pass in this kind of environment.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

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 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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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" Posting tweet.