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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: As we mentioned, we raised $1.5M

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MalibuIQ, HRL Team On Commercialization Effort

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Malibu-based MalibuIQ and HRL Laboratories , the former research and development arm of Hughes Aircraft which was previously known as Hughes Research Laboratories, said Tuesday that they have tied together to commercialize inventions and IP from HRL. TomorrowVentures is the investment arm of Google's Eric Schmidt.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

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For example: Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack Customer Development for Web Startups How To Get Your First 1,000 Users Similarly, when you look at IP / Intellectual Property for Startups, it's dominated by Jill Hubbard Bowman 's wonderful content.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

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Why A Cellular Carrier Did Not Buy Skype - Watching A Big Dumb Company Fail In Real Time

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Some of these capabilities are finally entering the market, primarily introduced by non-telecom entrants like Google and Apple, such as: visual voicemail, screening voicemail messages and immediately connecting you to callers with whom you wish to speak, and displaying caller ID on your television. Sadly, I was right.

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Internap | Faith in LA Tech Brings the Green

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I assume that if you have any type of dedicated servers, Managed Hosting or Enterprise IP, you’ve heard of Internap, if not… take a little time researching on Google before you pony up the big bucks next time, will ya? They may be new to LA, but I think they get it.