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Getting A Software Patent Is Valuable But Frustrating

Startup Professionals Musings

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. There is no such thing as a world-wide patent.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Winter | Recap, Videos, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

The next company up was Storitz , operating as an online reservation system for storage units (think Orbitz), the company helps consumers not only search for available listings, but also make reservations with real time feedback on availability and customer reviews.

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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

Tech Zulu Event

It’s almost been a work week since Techzulu and Gadget Review’s REACH | The Connected Future and we’re still reeling with excitement. To him, there’s a lot of money on the table for things like clean web, but if there aren’t any meat and potatoes projects, the whole system isn’t as effective.

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Interview with Steve Pelletier, FatTail

socalTECH

We have hundreds, and hundreds of web sites where their ad inventory is being managed by the product. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. You can literally click on an "advertise here" link and it will allow you to book a proposal, and that proposal gets build, and you can review, accept, or modify it.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Folksonomy. Free product.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.