Jaisen Mathai , a Yahoo engineer, asks a good question: What can we do with failed startup intellectual property that might help the community?
The large majority of most startups fail, and a lot of them have software, patents and other intellectual property that may be of value to the community. This IP could help those startups avoid wasting time reinventing the wheel, find creative ways to solve problems, etc. In a perfect world, the best of this property would be made available via a clearing house, or turned open source. Many founders would love to see their work live on in other projects and would be open to this.
But there’s a problem: all this intellectual property is still “property” and isowned by someone, even after a startup goes bankrupt. If the company has raised any venture capital, or has any creditors, they own the property after the bankruptcy. In a very few instances that IP is sold off to return some money to creditors. This is exactly wha...
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This is soooo cute.
I applied for older sibling.
BUt I turn 16 in november.. so i might be a younger sibling.
hope one of you guys would enjoy, being my older silbing.. lmao.... more
DEATH From: forum.chatdd.com Post Date: 2008-09-28 02:16:34
early in the morning at four,
When death knocked upon a bedroom door,
Who is there? The sleeping one cried.
I’m Malkul Mawt, let me inside.
At once, the man began to shiver,
As one sweating in deadly fever,
He shouted to his sleeping wife,
Don’t let him take away my life.
Please go away, O Angel of Death!
Leave me alone; I’m not ready yet.
My family on me depends,
Give me a chance, O please prepense!
The angel knock... more
I love bullet points From: lindsayneedscoffee.com Post Date: 2008-09-28 09:36:09
Have you ever been so, so tired but you can’t sleep? That was me last night. NOT FUN. But I eventually fell asleep and somewhere, cuddly kittens were born and an angel got their wings.
This morning I slept in, watched the SNL from last night, and ate some yogurt. I know what you are thinking: CHILL OUT, LINDSAY. Stop being so wild! College is over!
I’ll try. After all, I was in my pajamas at 7pm.
And now, it’s Sunday and MY, how I love a good Sunday. Is there any better day to ea... more
Here’s the third update to our January and April posts : Uber-blogger Robert Scoble, who in 2006 argued that having advertisements on blogs destroys trust, appears to be no longer content with… adding advertisements to his blog. Now he’s experimenting with Twittering adverts for perennial sponsor Seagate. He later twittered “I am just having a little fun getting a conversation about microblog advertising going”. That may be so but it will be interes... more
Websites go down every day (see, for example, Twitter), but this is the first time I’ve heard that the reason for an outage was due to servers being stolen from a data center.
That’s what appears to have happened to PeterGabriel.com . His site is down (along with nine related sites) and shows the message above stating that their servers were stolen from their ISP’s data center on Sunday evening. The Register tracks the hosting provider to a company own... more
Patrick Grady has spent the past eight years of his life building the ultimate personal Web assistant in relative obscurity. But now his company, Rearden Commerce, is quietly emerging as major force among enterprise startups. He has confirmed that, as previously reported , Rearden has closed a $100 million round of funding from investors that include American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Oak Investment Partners, and Foundation Capital. American Express already invested in a previous round... more
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