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How to Handle Non-Compete Clauses

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| FreelanceSwitch.com
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I had the chance to talk with an­oth­er free­lancer the other day: she’s been of­fered the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take on a six-mon­th pro­ject where she’d essen­tial­ly be work­ing full-time for a sin­gle client. The money is good, but there’s a catch in the con­trac­t—a non-com­pete clause. The Standard Non-Compete Clause The idea be­hind non-com­pete claus­es grew out of em­ploy­ers want­ing to make sure that when an em­ploy­ee left the com­pa­ny, he didn’t take any clients with him. Most claus­es are phrased so that the (...)
 

Twitter Will Finally Announce Its Ad Model In April

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Silicon Alley Insider
| Peter Kafka
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From AllThingsD: Twitter CEO Evan Williams did not an­nounce the new ad plat­form the com­pa­ny is work­ing on to­day. Read the rest of this sto­ry » See Also:Here's What Twitter's CEO Was Trying To Tell You About @Any­where When Umair Haque Wrecked His SXSW KeynoteSXSW Attendees Rip Into Twitter CEO's KeynoteTwitter Announces "@Any­where" For Deeper Integration With Third Party Sites a (...)
 

Twitter’s @anywhere: Not a Bang But a Whimper

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| Mathew Ingram
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Twitter founder Evan Williams was wide­ly ex­pect­ed to an­nounce an ad­ver­tis­ing plat­form at the SXSW con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, but while he an­nounced some­thing with dozens of ma­jor me­dia part­ners, it wasn’t an ad plat­form — it was some­thing called @any­where. And what is @any­where? Good ques­tion. In fact, that’s just one of the many good ques­tions that at­ten­dees hoped in vain would be asked by Umair Haque of Harvard Business Review, whose in­ter­view­ing skills re­ceived less than crit­i­cal ac­claim dur­ing (...)
 

Facebook Kicks Off Implementation Of QR Codes

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TechCrunch
| Robin Wauters
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I can’t see this on my own Facebook pro­file yet, but we’ve got­ten a num­ber of tips in our in­box in the past 10 min­utes so it’s safe to as­sume it’s not a hoax or any­thing: Facebook ap­pears to have start­ed en­abling users to gen­er­ate cus­tom two-di­men­sion­al QR codes. From the looks of the screen­shot em­bed­ded above, there are two types of QR codes: a per­son­al bar­code or a “s­ta­tus QR bar­code”. This al­so seems to ap­pear on Facebook Fan Pages. Judging from the tweets about this, the QR codes don’t (...)
 

2010 VC market outlook: No cash for clunkers

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| Don Rainey
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(Editor’s note: Don Rainey is a gen­er­al part­ner at Grotech Ventures and au­thor of the  “VC in DC” blog. He sub­mit­ted this column to VentureBeat.) Throughout the fi­nan­cial cri­sis of 2008-09, most ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists wise­ly ad­vised star­tups to hun­ker down. The best bet, they said, was to low­er ex­pens­es and, above all else, avoid fundrais­ing in 2009, since all eyes were on 2010 as the prover­bial light at the end of the tun­nel.  The ad­vice, as it turns out, was some­what short-sight­ed. We are now (...)
 

SEC Watch: AOL’s Cahall Got Retention Bonus 10 Days Before Leaving; Armstrong Caps ’09 At $25M

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AOL (NYSE: AOL) has to prove its met­tle this year in full pub­lic view, in more ways than one. And 2010 may not be a great year for com­pen­sa­tion in­crease for the top ex­ecs. In line with that, the com­pa­ny has de­cid­ed to not in­crease based salary this year, ac­cord­ing to a SEC proxy fil­ing this morn­ing, same as 2009. However, as al­ways, other perks more than make up for it. Interestingly, Ted Cahall, till re­cent­ly the CTO of AOL, got a sec­ondary re­ten­tion pay­ment 10 days be­fore the com­pa­ny (...)
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VC Bookworm

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| bussgang
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"I've de­cid­ed to write a book," I told my wife over a year ago. She gave me that what-the-bleep-are-you-talk­ing-about look.  You may be fa­mil­iar with your spouse. "You've what?" "I've de­cid­ed to write a book," I re­peat­ed, slight­ly less con­fi­dent­ly. "On what?" "Venture cap­i­tal and en­treneur­ship." "Why?" "Well, when I was an en­trepreneur, I couldn't find any good books on how this mys­te­ri­ous cap­i­tal-rais­ing pro­cess worked and how to har­ness the re­sources and knowl­edge of (...)
 

SXSW: Digg’s Big Redesign Taps Into Social Web

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Wired: Tech Biz
| Michael Calore
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The up­com­ing rad­i­cal re­boot of the so­cial news site will pull in data from Twitter, Facebook and other pow­er­ful tools to help con­nect users to the sto­ries most rel­e­vant to them at any given time. Digg CEO Jay Edelson lays out the mas­ter plan.
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Standing Cloud Launches Trial Edition

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| Brad Feld
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Not long after I post­ed about Dave Jilk’s ex­pe­ri­ence with the Pogoplug, he start­ed us­ing the phrase “Pogo­plug Simple” to de­scribe one of the goals of Standing Cloud.  The idea is that tech­nol­o­gy prod­ucts should be so easy to set up and use that the ex­pe­ri­ence is vague­ly un­sat­is­fy­ing – you feel like you didn’t do any­thing.  S­tand­ing Cloud – a com­pa­ny we pro­vid­ed seed fund­ing for last year - is launch­ing pub­licly this week with its Trial Edition and I think they’ve man­aged to make cloud ap­pli­ca­tion (...)
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