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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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A large, wireless carrier (AT&T) was willing to break it’s traditional rules in order to get access to innovation that it believed (correctly) would help it to sell more contracts and win more market share against its primary competitor (Verizon). Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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

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This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. If you had a non-business undergrad and want to study for a master’s in business – go for it!

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Interview: Benjamin Satterfield, Co-Founder & CEO TestFlight

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Value Prop Twitter Style : TestFlight helps developers build better apps. We developed it for ourselves. TestFlight does simple, elegant, over the air distribution of apps that are in development and haven’t been made available in the App Store yet. In the development world, it is always about patterns. ."

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Bio Roundup: RIP Roger Tsien, Novartis CAR-T Wheel, Zika News & More

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—Cambridge, MA-based messenger RNA drug developer Moderna Therapeutics is raising another huge financing round, according to an SEC filing. The companies—Amgen, Sanofi, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals—are due to release important long-term data next year that will shape the debate over the drugs’ prices.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. There are many analogies here for software development. He made many of his own mistakes.

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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

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Pretty much the only thing that has changed is the price, and they're charging more. You only call them typically when you need some particular thing done, like a big contract, or some major corporate transaction. At one point at LegalZoom, I stepped away from day-to-day duties, and spent some time developing real estate.

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