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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

First, think about your time as money! Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues.

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Is there gold in your old intellectual property?

Berkonomics

So, I was surprised and excited when one of these verbal fishing expeditions during a lunch brought up a technology the company had patented years before and forgotten. It wasn’t about paying for service we now expect at no extra cost just about everywhere, it was about a patent that covered that expansive service.

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Fuisz Media Ties With Intellectual Ventures

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based interactive video technology developer Fuisz Media and IP licensing firm Intellectual Ventures said yesterday that the two are in a intellectual property licensing agreement. Financial details of the patent licensing deal were not announced. Financial details of the patent licensing deal were not announced.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

People who live outside of Indiana probably know a few things about it: The Indianapolis 500, a.k.a. But people might not know much about Indiana’s economy and its culture of innovation. Here are three things you probably didn’t know about the Hoosier State: 1. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept.

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7 Reasons To Think Positively About Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements about them to their own team, investors and even to customers. As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition.

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Helicoid Industries Finds $2.4M

socalTECH

Indio, California-based Helicoid Idustries , a startup developing advanced composite materials for use in the wind turbine, aerospace, sporting goods, auto parts, defense, and industrial market, has raised $2.4M--the first part of what looks like an ongoing $5M investment round. Helicoid is a spinout of the University of California Riverside.

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There’s gold in re-purposing intellectual property.

Berkonomics

Several times a month, I’d have lunch with one of my CEOs, and each time we’d find ourselves digging into the intellectual property developed by the company over the years, just to refresh ourselves about what the intended use was back then, and whether new developments or technologies might make these older ideas and patents relevant again.

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