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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 they released a new 2.0 It's a great talk.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

socalTECH

Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. Back to the service--how do people use Quub? Don Patterson: The first reason to offer the service is to broadcast your status to many sites.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Stage two: They say the solution was obvious all along." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. So, if youve got an idea, whether it be for a new product or service, a new marketing message or new company -- be sure to invest in a good helmet and a rubber rejection suit.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO. raising capital, underwriters backing out, extreme criticism, patent lawsuit from our competitor, etc.) Bootstrap 2. 7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race 3.

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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

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. Things seem to move a lot slower.

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