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Are you afraid of non-compete agreements?     

Berkonomics

As I write this in late 2024, legislation is being proposed at the national level to eliminate non-competes. Further, there is no expiration date on these poisoned documents. You cannot complain that the document or information in question is more than five years or two employers old. Both in business suits and looking somber.

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Another factor that impacts a patent’s value is its type, of which there are essentially two: utility patents and design patents. Utility patents generally offer more protection than design patents and are thus usually more valuable. Design patents make up the majority of non-utility patents.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). It will be controversial – I know. I know this stuff cold now.

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Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Persuading a journalist to write about you rather than the 1,000 other companies bugging them. And for which I was sure were designed to screw me. Their modus operandi is, “send us all your comments by marking up our entire document.” You get back a document that has 5,000 redlines on it.

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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. I'll do my best to keep this document up to date. This seems odd at first, given that some interfaces actually define their equals behavior in documentation. It performs better than RRWL when used as a plain read-write lock.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. 18% of all errors come from people using the wrong documents. OK, yes. It becomes folklore.