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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren’t interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5% of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. A niche studio is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP in a specific industry and domain – for example Flagship Pioneering , which is focused on health care and incubated LS18 — the company that became Moderna.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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[Infographic] Reinventing The Internet With Blockchain

YoungUpstarts

The real mission of the blockchain revolution, for many experts, is to re-decentralize the internet. Believe it or not, the internet was decentralized at one time. Blockchain technology presents a new way to completely separate from the internet as we know it, and start over. Internet vs Blockchain: A Simple Comparison.

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Are You An Internet Entrepreneur In Colorado? Oppose PIPA!

Feld Thoughts

If you are a entrepreneur in Colorado who is working on something related to the Internet, please consider signing the following letter to Senator Udall and Senator Bennet opposing the Protect IP (PIPA) Act. The letter follows: To: Senator Udall, Senator Bennet.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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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. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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Internet scale. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). The example chart is not actually atypical. Growth matters.

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