Tag Archives: Entrepreneurship

MBA Media and Entertainment Conference

Feb 26th, the sched­uled date for MBA MEC 2010, hap­pened to be another snow storm day for NYC. But because it was NYC and the pan­elists could just take a cab or sub­way, the con­fer­ence was not can­celed — big kudos. The MEC is one of the most pres­ti­gious events for Media fra­ter­nity and attracts [...]
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New York’s own seed funding program

It didn’t make sense that the vibrant NYC didn’t have its own startup men­tor­ing pro­gram such as Tech­Stars. So, I am glad to see the foun­da­tion of Seed­Stars. 8 week sum­mer pro­gram is already tak­ing appli­ca­tions for 2010. Very very lucra­tive esp for peo­ple like me who are tied to NYC and I am sure [...]
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Intellectual Property’

Over this past week, I had to bang my head sev­eral times on the so called scam of ‘IP pro­tec­tion’ and soft­ware patents. First, I didn’t even know much about this term except that it had become a buzz word in last 5 years. So, when we were asked about our aware­ness of patents by [...]
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