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	<title>Biz Geek</title>
	
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		<title>Tips to Market Your Software on a Shoestring Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in my third decade of selling software.&#160; What’s amazing to me is how much easier it is today to market and sell software over the Web, versus back in the “old days” when we had to mess with disk duplication and mailing, snail mail correspondence, cashing checks and postal orders by hand, and providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NAPSI) - While many people know that small-business entrepreneurs are helping to raise our country out of recession, you might be surprised to learn that the faces of new business have been changing. 
A recent study found that early-stage entrepreneurs are more likely to be non-white, of immigrant status and from a lower level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM to Workers: Avoid Layoffs by Outsourcing Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.biz-geek.com/ibm-to-workers-avoid-layoffs-by-outsourcing-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM has created a new program called Project Match to help workers laid off from its U.S. sites obtain a visa and find jobs at IBM sites in other countries.  Most openings are located in developing countries like India, China and Brazil.  IBM is promoting these jobs by noting the climate is warm, the food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief History of Software Patents</title>
		<link>http://www.biz-geek.com/brief-history-of-software-patents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to an inventor for a fixed period of time in exchange for disclosure of an invention.&#160; The patent enables the inventor to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the invention.
Read more at DevTopics
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		<title>Coalition Seeks to End Software Patents</title>
		<link>http://www.biz-geek.com/coalition-seeks-to-end-software-patents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.biz-geek.com/coalition-seeks-to-end-software-patents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several patent reform organizations have joined forces to abolish software patents.&#160; The End Software Patents (ESP) coalition aims to eliminate patents that do not specify a physically innovative step, which would likely include many of the software patents granted today.&#160; The coalition was founded by the Free Software Foundation, Public Patent Foundation, and Software Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Software Patent Self-Exams Realistic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time and money should a software company invest to ensure that its products do not infringe on registered software patents?
The question comes to mind after Microsoft accused the open-source industry of violating 235 Microsoft patents.&#160; Microsoft released the total but did not specify the infringed-upon patents.&#160; Some accuse Microsoft of using this strong-arm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Your Software with Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks</title>
		<link>http://www.biz-geek.com/protect-your-software-with-patents-copyrights-and-trademarks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve spent thousands of hours developing a new software program. Now how do you ensure that your competitors don&#8217;t copy your program and steal your market? The sad truth is you can&#8217;t, as Apple discovered when Microsoft &#8220;borrowed&#8221; its graphical user interface to build Windows and corner the PC operating system market. But there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Finds Non-Compete Clauses Invalid</title>
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		<comments>http://www.biz-geek.com/court-finds-non-compete-clauses-invalid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a ruling that&#8217;s likely to send shock waves throughout the technology industry, the California Supreme Court upheld a 136-year-old state law against non-compete clauses in employment contracts.&#160; The ruling says that employers cannot restrict employees from working for a competitor or soliciting former clients once they leave the company.
Read more at DevTopics
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		<title>Venture Capital Funding Flat</title>
		<link>http://www.biz-geek.com/venture-capital-funding-flat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.biz-geek.com/venture-capital-funding-flat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No surprise given the sluggish economy, but venture capital (VC) funding for U.S. startup companies remained flat in the second quarter.&#160; According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), venture capitalists invested $7.4 billion in 990 deals.
Read more at DevTopics
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		<title>Software Markets Compared</title>
		<link>http://www.biz-geek.com/software-markets-compared/</link>
		<comments>http://www.biz-geek.com/software-markets-compared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During my 25 years as a software entrepreneur, I&#8217;ve had the pleasure and challenge of selling PC software to three major markets: large enterprises, general consumers, and software developers.&#160; 
Of course, each target market has its own advantages and disadvantages, which I summarize below.&#160; Note this list is from the perspective of a small software [...]]]></description>
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