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The Network is the Force – May the Force be with you
I have written about how Iceland could be the world’s first Internet Enterprise Zone. It is not a pipe dream of a crazy Indian living in Iceland, although I do not refute the fact that I can be crazy ....
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Laws that choke creativity – Iceland to the rescue
English: Amanda Palmer Live 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I watched the High Schools participate in the Song contest in Iceland last night and I was very inspired to see the talent here in Iceland in...
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Back to the Future
I love Yogi Berra‘s quotes: The future ain’t what it used to be. Yogi Berra – wise man this Yogi Berra Iceland voted yesterday and I have to say watching the reaction of the Icelanders is always...
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Software Patents – New Zealand takes the lead
New Zealand 1 Source: Forbes Patent Trolls 0 In the world of bits and bytes, the above score means a lot. If you have been following my chain of thought, I believe...
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Net Neutrality, Startup Communities and Permissionless Innovation
If you have not noticed what is happening to Net Neutrality and the FCC’s vote on May 15th you really need to. Fred Wilson of USV has written an Open Letter to the FCC Chairman and most of the...
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Design is your new IP
The last couple of days have been quite hectic. A lot of meetings and I was on TV and papers and in all the social media in Iceland, I was talking about challenges and opportunities of building startup...
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Öryggisventill – An Icelandic Open Source Project that gives Power to the People
Parliament House, at Austurvöllur in Reykjavík, built 1880–1881. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It has been a while since I posted, almost 2 weeks I took some time to think and ponder and be on digital...
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Nothing kills a startup faster than these 2 things
There are 2 things that usually kill a startup, I have written about 1 and 2 before: Legal – Legal Entity formation, Contracts vetted by lawyers to clearly articulate equity split, employment and...
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A Trademark Primer for Startups
When you are building a startup, you have more than enough things to worry about. Often, teams push off thinking about their intellectual property (IP), such as trademarks, copyrights, and patents,...
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A Copyright Primer for Startups
In our previous post, we discussed what a trademark is, how you select one, and how you protect it. In this post, we examine copyright protection. Again, this post concerns a startup business’s...
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