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by grellas 12y ago
With seed funding, founders need to accomplish several goals: (1) raise early money as a bridge to Series A to avoid having to take large money right up front when valuation is at its lowest and the dilutive hit will be at its maximum; (2)
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by grellas 12y ago
Why should someone self-immolate in the name of a cause to which he disclaims being a leader when he has a chance to sell his for-profit business on optimal terms with no strings and with an immediate ticket to full independence free of the
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by grellas 12y ago
Y Combinator is in itself a venture capital firm whose genius has been to use innovative ways to capture and control deal flow for premiere startup ventures. Back in the day, top VCs would not be caught dead investing in an early stage seed
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by grellas 12y ago
You really need to be careful about how you approach this sort of issue. While the advice may be trite, it is particularly apt here to emphasize the importance of consulting with a lawyer who is strong on IP issues. In particular, this woul
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by grellas 12y ago
In launching a venture, use a good lawyer to help you define what is the best legal structure for your venture, who owns what piece of that venture and on what earn-out terms, if any, who has rights to any IP developed by participants in th
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by grellas 12y ago
The Copyright Act is a federal statute that protects any public performance of a copyrighted work from infringing uses. Aereo took what were undisputedly public performances of works from broadcasters to the public, intercepted them, and by
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by grellas 12y ago
One of the horrid things about law is how it can be dissembled by those whose job is to practice it. This drives people crazy. They know something is real . Yet, especially if they are caught in its hooks, they watch how law can be applied
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by grellas 12y ago
This piece - beautifully written - reminds me of an old PBS documentary I once saw about how a savory-looking new food offering got flattened and homogenized into something really unappealing as it went through the fast-food commercializati
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by grellas 12y ago
Disappointing as this result is for those who want IP law to adapt more cleanly to developer realities, and much as I loved Judge Alsup's decision in the lower court ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4051761 ), this
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Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network(online.wsj.com)
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Supreme Court Conflicted on Legality of Aereo Online Video Service(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Non-compete clauses have their place in the law but they have in my view been abused in the employment context. The classic case of a good reason for having an enforceable non-compete arises with the sale of goodwill in a business. Propriet
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by grellas 13y ago
Think about what it means to the HN culture to have a subject that normally would have been flagged out of existence as overtly political suddenly be featured front and center in the apparent belief that ideological purity is now a litmus t
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Does Tesla Really Need a $5 Billion Battery Factory?(online.wsj.com)
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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Base Salary Set at $1(bloomberg.com)
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Google Is Central to Latest Apple-Samsung Case(online.wsj.com)
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Microsoft Boss Relaxes Windows-First Policy(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Paternalistic meddling with free consumer choices is always fraught with peril. Sometimes it is necessary to protect important principles in society. You can't discriminate based on race - that limits choice but who would support the c
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by grellas 13y ago
As the article points out, "auto safety" itself has had a huge push from consumer advocates at least since Ralph Nader highlighted the risks of car design defects in the 1960s. That said, a few points about the law and auto safety
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The Bitcoin Paradox That Undid Mt. Gox(online.wsj.com)
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Bitcoin Experiment in Real Life(online.wsj.com)
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Sorry, Writers, But I'm Siding With Google's Robots(online.wsj.com)
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Microsoft Prescription: More Bill Gates(online.wsj.com)
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NSA: why there can be no fair trial for Snowden under the Espionage Act of 1917(online.wsj.com)
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Pinterest CEO Lays Out Growth Plan(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
A few thoughts: 1. The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Soverain from an adverse ruling by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that had determined the Soverain "shopping cart" patent to be invalid on grounds of obvious
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Supreme Court to Hear Case Pitting Aereo Service Against Broadcasters(online.wsj.com)
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How Techies Are Transforming San Francisco(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
A nice post whose essential point is that you should eschew formulaic methods of writing that force you to fit your thoughts into a rigid format and thus hamper your ability to express them in a way that best suits the subject. Writing styl
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Non-disparagement clauses can be seen as a throwaway item, a suffocating burden, an essential protection, or a damned nuisance, each according to taste or context. To begin with, lawyers tend to see these clauses as essential protections an

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