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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

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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What Businesses Need To Know In The Wake Of The Equifax Breach

YoungUpstarts

And seeing multiple new accounts coming from the same IP address or device is a red flag for a single person creating many accounts. A software engineer at heart, Jason was an early engineer at a few Seattle startups (Zillow, Optify, BuzzLabs), before migrating to San Francisco to start Sift Science in 2011.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smar.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys!

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. StuntCoders Located in Belgrade, SERBIA StuntCoders is agile team of freelance software engineers who love their call.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.?

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

He was our IP attorney. I think that what shouldn't be lost in there is that Bitwise's model fundamentally is about how do we raise up folks from a story of poverty, folks from communities of color, women, to be software engineers. He ended up becoming my representation for a different company that I started.

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