Why do I need employment agreements? Can’t I trust my own employees? Of course you should hire people you can trust. You may even enjoy a personal bond with your employees and treat them like friends and family. But the employment relationship is fundamentally a business deal. And business deals should be governed by written […]
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Here are some notes from a seasoned entrepreneur who attended this SDForum VC Roundatble event last night in Palo Alto featuring the following panel: Rebecca Lynn (Morganthaler Ventures), Evan Liang (Shasta Ventures) and Rohit Gupta (Opus Capital). Comments re. what VC’s are seeking in a software/services startup: subscription models are favored; free first, subscription later
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This multi-part series is adapoted from the ideas2money lecture I have been giving for several years, and will in theory serve as the basis of a forthcoming book on the subject. A bit about basic terminology. Intellectual Property (IP) refers to two, and possibly three, things. In the study of programming languages, we would say
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Remarks delivered at the Sarasota International Design Summit, 27 Oct 2008 Part 1 Cosmic Innovation It is said that we live in an age of unprecedented innovation. Actually, that’s a bit redundant. Innovation invokes the unprecedented by definition; all innovation creates something having no precedent, something that did not exist before. At the moment of
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