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		<title>Legal Mistakes Startups Make</title>
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		<author>kevin@hspn.com (Kevin)</author>
		<category>Business</category><category>Legal</category>
		<comments>http://treppy.com/blog/comments/legal-mistakes-startups-make</comments>		<description><![CDATA[<p>Entrepreneurs generally do a phenomenal job launching the startups and developing their visions. Unfortunately, they can also make enormous, costly legal mistakes that can crush your business.&nbsp; Recently, these 4 legal mistakes startups make were featured on VentureBeat.com.&nbsp; The issues relate to the vesting restrictions related to founder stock and IP ownership.&nbsp; I distilled the points here:</p>

<p><strong>Common Stock Vesting Restrictions for Founders Stock</strong><br />
All common stock shares issued to founders in a startup should normally vest over time, i.e. be subject to vesting restrictions, as opposed to vesting on day one.&nbsp; If the shares vested immediately, then a founder can quit the business on day two and take his/her shares with them without any obligation to contribute further time to the startup.&nbsp; That is particularly bad news if your startup relies on any of the founders for their continuing labor contribution to the business, like coding the product/website, creating/editing/moderating content, or marketing the startup.</p>

<p><strong>Startup IP Ownership</strong>&nbsp;  &nbsp; <br />
Founders should put the startup first and do their due diligence upfront to prevent major legal headaches down the road to eliminate the typical issues that experienced investors will pin-point when doing their own due diligence.</p>

<p><em>IP generated by the startup should be owned by the startup.</em>&nbsp; Did any of the founders participate in the business while working for another company?&nbsp; If so, this could taint or cloud the ownership of the startups IP.</p>

<p><em>IP created or acquired by a founder prior to the startup formally coming into existence should be assigned to the startup entity.</em>&nbsp; Imagine if one of the founders individually started a website that gained traction and he/she recognized that it required additional contributors in the business to achieve some huge success down the road.&nbsp; He/she brings on two other co-founders and formalizes the business by starting an LLC.&nbsp; The original founder should contribute the website and IP related to it to the startup entity in addition to formalizing their agreements in writing.</p>

<p><em>Similarly, IP created or supplied by outsiders, like developers or designers, should be assigned to the startup entity.</em></p>

<p>To read more about how these particular issues are addressed after a startup is an on-going business and raising money from investors, check out the article on VentureBeat.com:<br />
<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/26/deadly-legal-mistakes-startups/">http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/26/deadly-legal-mistakes-startups/</a></p>



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		<title>Sorting and Formatting IP Addresses in Excel</title>
		<link>http://treppy.com/blog/comments/sorting-and-formatting-ip-addresses-in-excel</link>
		<author>kevin@hspn.com (Kevin)</author>
		<category>Business</category><category>Technology</category><category>General</category>
		<comments>http://treppy.com/blog/comments/sorting-and-formatting-ip-addresses-in-excel</comments>		<description><![CDATA[<p>Excel is a handy tool that I use to sort lists of IP addresses used by spammers.&nbsp; The list can become long and overwhelming.&nbsp; Rather than wait until spammers strike, I try to be proactive by organizing these IP addresses in ascending order to look for patterns.&nbsp; This allows me to ban large blocks of IP addresses that future spam will likely originate from.</p>

<p>1) Type or paste your list of IP addresses into a single column within Microsoft Excel (this writeup assumes you use column A); <br />
2) Select the cells that contain IP addresses;<br />
3) Click or select Text to Columns under the Data tab in the menu;<br />
4) Choose &#8216;Delimited&#8217; as your file type and click Next;<br />
5) Select &#8216;Other&#8217; as the delimiter and insert a period in the open field, and select Finish (not Next);</p>

<p>That should split each individual IP address into 4 separate columns (columns A through D), allowing you to Sort them by following these steps:<br />
1) Select the 4 columns by clicking on the column header for column A and dragging to select all 4 columns before releasing your mouse button;<br />
2) Click the Data tab in your menu and select &#8216;Sort&#8217;;<br />
3) Here you can choose among a variety of sorting options, including smallest to largest;</p>

<p>After you sorted the IP list of IP addresses, you can use a formula to combine the cells while inserting a period to separate the values:<br />
1) Type the following formula in column E, Row 1: </p>

<p>=A1&amp;&#8221;.&#8221;&amp;B1&amp;&#8221;.&#8221;&amp;C1&amp;&#8221;.&#8221;&amp;D1  </p>

<p>2) Double click click the tiny square that appears in the border of the cell in Column E, Row 1, filling the other cells within Column E with this formula;<br />
3) You can always copy Column E and paste values using the paste special function in Excel.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:27:48 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Reset your Linux password</title>
		<link>http://treppy.com/blog/comments/reset-change-linux-password</link>
		<author>kevin@hspn.com (Kevin)</author>
		<category>Technology</category>
		<comments>http://treppy.com/blog/comments/reset-change-linux-password</comments>		<description><![CDATA[<p>Reset Linux Password Instructions:</p>

<p>Login to the server.<br />
Type &#8216;passwd&#8217; (followed by the enter key).<br />
Type the new password.<br />
Confirm the new password.</p>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:35:31 GMT</pubDate>
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