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Be Frugal, But Never Cheap When Locking Down Your IP

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. An invalidated patent or one deemed to infringe the rights of another party can devastate a startup. Defensible Claims - Some companies take pride in the number of patents they own. Do not rely on the IP lawyer to coax such vital information from you.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

At Pepperdine, I co-founded the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law -- only the fourth scholarly journal in the history of the Pepperdine School of Law. I'm impressed that you got a journal created at the law school. You are writing about the essentials of business. That's great.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

Despite some recent advances, there are still some cultures which have less regard for patents and other intellectual property. You cant isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal.

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6 Ways To Prevent Disastrous Outsourcing Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Despite some recent advances, there are still some cultures which have less regard for patents and other intellectual property. You can’t isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of. Lisa Nicole Bell – CEO of Inspired Life Media Group.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. Hardcore SEO Porn Harrys explicit SEO Dojo Peeping Geeking with Greg Bills search patent close-ups Tomorrows Free SEO Porn Edwards SEO TGP FAQ Sexy T-Shirts. It’s all dumped from memory without further thoughts and didn’t face a syntax checker. Thanks for your time.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market.

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