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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

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Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP. Integrate PS Work Into Sales & Marketing Processes.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. Banana IP. "Intellectual As described in IP Is Worthless To A Startup , most startups over estimate the value of their intellectual property. One Of The Most Important Startup Skills. "The

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

. - Union Square Ventures , June 10, 2010 No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models - Steve Blank , April 8, 2010 Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events (..)

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

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The thing is … what I see many sales execs do is burn up countless hours on mid-level campaigns that get torpedoed when the go up the organization due to lack of budget, a desire to own that core IP or other more pressing organization priorities. If they’re not buying you need to be marketing to them not selling to them.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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Intellectual Property Workshop for Techies by IEEE

SoCal Tech Calendar

The workshop will include case studies on how these subjects are utilized to protect actual products or services. This is a great opportunity for SoCal inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers and business owners to learn how IP issues may impact their existing business or a dream business they intent to start. See [link] (more).

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Anybody who has studied the VC industry knows that it works by “power law” returns in which a few key deals return the majority of a fund. Nick is an alum of UC Berkeley and Wharton, worked at Warby Parker and then most recently at the venerable LA-based Seed Fund, Crosscut. How Does the Industry Really Work?