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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

Banana IP. "Intellectual As described in IP Is Worthless To A Startup , most startups over estimate the value of their intellectual property. Unless your venture is focused on researching potential scientific breakthroughs, it is likely that your technology can be easily copied and your patents circumvented.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

Each record also had the user’s IP address of the device they used to place the order. Send tips securely over Signal and WhatsApp to +1 646-755-8849. The data set contained more than 70,000 orders dating between September 2015 and November 2019, and included customer names and email addresses, home addresses and order details.

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

Tech Zulu Event

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology.

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Interview with Yan Hui, AirHop

socalTECH

One of the largest areas of Southern California's technology base is in the wireless and communications market. I think that more and more, the operators understand that they need advanced, intelligent technology to make it work. We asked lots of questions, to validate the technology and understand the pain point.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz

socalTECH

If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. What's the technology behind this? We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Most corporate attorneys can give you general guidance with respect to securing your Intellectual Property (IP) rights, especially with respect to trademarks, copyrights and other non-patent-related items. You do not want your IP lawyer to learn the prior art associated with your technology on your dime.