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8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

InfoChachkie

IP Confusion – Questionable ownership of key intellectual property, including non-exclusive licenses, potential infringement of a third party’s technology and/or inappropriate use of open-source tools. As such, make it easy for investors to unequivocally evaluate the veracity of your venture's IP. Share and Enjoy.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. Make sure you own your IP.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

This uncalled-for –IOW abusive– bot traffic burns your resources, and (with a cheap hosting plan) it can hinder your followers to read your awesome article and prevent them from clicking on your carefully selected ads. ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

$requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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