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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

This is one of those services that when you create a new company, it makes sense to outsource things. For $79, you get 100,000 emails, and you're able to control your own IP address. Controlling your IP address is a big deal. That why we offer a price point where you own your own IP address, and you can control your own destiny.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

You own the IP you create. Services for services sake - The type of business that is generally shunned in Silicon Valley is the “pure services&# business like consulting, system integration, value-added resellers (VARs), customer support businesses, outsourcing companies, etc.

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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. Intellectual Property (IP) provisions should ensure that both parties maintain the IP rights that they respectively own at the outset of the relationship. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

Thus, follow the guidelines outlined in IP – Worthless To A Startup and only spend significant time and effort protecting your intellectual property when it is clear what you are trying to protect. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). It’s clear that the exuberance has returned to hiring, paying large compensation, poaching staff with big payouts and large fund raising events at lofty prices.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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