Twitter posts in 2009.
- #Start-up collaboration smarties – realise #IP is just an opportunity, pay for legal advice, and value-add to the IP for all to share the $
- #Start-up collaboration primitives – believe #IP is a pie, seek a bigger personal cut, fail to get legal advice, then fight over the bones
- 3 key ways to improve business lawyer #productivity. 1 Use project management. 2 Develop commercial thinking. 3 Seek costs predictability.
- We inspired a client today to create a great #brand name in 1 hour. We asked: What’s the vibe, vision or positive message? He sparked. 🙂
- #IP strategy is 1% inspiration and 99% IP auditing, deal making, negotiation, documentation, registration, management… you get the picture
- Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bob Ackerman rings alarm bells about rising legal compliance and legal issues
- “Law firm value for money” – The legal mystique lives on in the legal profession and a LexisNexis “White Paper”
- “Commercialisation success stories and guides” – original collection at Lightbulb IP law blog
- Note to self – when you talk law, also talk costs. It can verge on fraud to do otherwise.
- Enterprise 2.0 now has momentum in my law practice. I use it for client work and in my firm’s website tag cloud
- Internet business models debunk The Long Tail theory – my latest blog post
- I was told a lawyer who advises himself has a fool for a client. I say a client who takes advice and does not follow it is being foolish.
- Fact – print publishers for professionals continue to loose subscribers. Reason? The internet fire hose of information. Solution? Web 2.0.
- Chris Anderson wrote on the wrong tail. Today I saw the real long tail. It is a printed industry “publication” containing only advertorials.
- Brainstormed today for a quality Enterprise 2.0 web venture reworking the medical sector. Today it was great to be an IP lawyer in Sydney.
- I engage with social media as it builds my predictive capacity as a #lawyer. Traditional media is taken over by public relations, and worse.
- It would be nice if journalism and academia were on the path to improved predictive capacity. From my perspective they are in decline.
- Seek predictive capacity from #IP lawyers advising on IP strategy. Question their learning, experience, research, thinking and realism.
- Dion Hinchcliffe foresight – Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowded
- Almost never set up a company for multiple parties if you lack a shareholders agreement and IP assignments. Principle: Form follows function
- Business and legal hints for software #commercialisation by small IT developers are in my latest post
- #Change is faster now. Change is more unpredictable now. WE NEED: 1. New approaches. 2. People thinking 5+ years ahead. 3. Quality data.
- Nobody I’ve met in professional services thinks we should have even more legislation. In Australia a tsunami of law is coming at us! Why?
- A legal rap and practical advice on #entrepreneurship: “Practical Rap: Entrepreneurship elevator speech“
- What does copyright law say about copying images in Google images? Law is clear, but common practice has moved on.
- Download legal rapper noricd’s latest release 😉 – “Practical Rap: Forming a business partnership agreement“
- Do this if others with your permission USE a really valuable asset like a copyright or your brand or name. PUT IT IN WRITING.
- @markhjones Re media agency revenue shares in Oz. In reply to @markhjones.
- Wrote a harangue today, an article on things to consider in corporate or organisational social media policies. See www.dilanchian.com.au
- Fish wrap whinge. In July 2009 it is mindless for a newspaper to discuss corporate social media policies and fixate on risk management.
- Be clear, are you employee or independent contractor? Affects: 1. tax, 2. IP ownership, 3. insurance cover, 4. liability for negligence etc.
- I thought the distinction in Oz law between the concepts of employee and independent contractor were settled. Not so, I’ve found in 2009.
- Business partners and collaborators of the world – put your deal in writing! Keep the deal verbal if you want lawyers to make more money.
- Wrote new blog post inspired by stats on car sales online in Australia “E-commerce contracts and revenues”. See www.dilanchian.com.au
- Is knowledge management for lawyers suddenly a hot subject? Or have I been net surfing too much this month?
- Would this fly? A WEB VENTURE offering great template contracts (to buy) + contract law know-how wiki (free for all) + great Web 2.0 tools?
- I’ve advised internet ventures on law for 12 yrs+. Here’s what I know – 8 legal tips for e-commerce and websites.
- Open source software – which company propelled that idea to prominence? I say Netscape. I wrote why today here.
- Business process and competency definition should come before legal work.
- Regulations framework for e-commerce pharmaceuticals – put up this article today on advising Australian websites.
- Litigation in 2009 is a dark costly art. Solution? 1. Try to avoid it. 2. Seek early resolution. 3. Success rate of my demand letters: 80%.
- Entrepreneurship defined in a Q&A – my list of clues, pitfalls, and 10 key competencies for entrepreneurs.
- Advising on law for a U.S.-based Web 2.0 health site. A useful slide presentation for that sector is – Social Media Tools For Stronger Practice
- Good news growing on venture capital. Ning got US$15m, Facebook US$100m from Russians, LinkedIn claims a US$1bn value. All makes sense 2me.
- 4 great brand protection moves. 1. pick a good name 2. register, maybe a trademark too (call me) 3. market well 4. keep records and docs.
- ANSWER: For the best IP or commercialisation strategy – examine industry economics + your core competency/process, workflow, & capability
- QUESTION: What’s best for IP commercialisation? Is it being a licensor, supplier, brand owner, component manufacturer or something else?
- As a lawyer, for me the most interesting QUESTION for a client is – what is your intellectual property or technology commercialisation path?
- In 2007 I wrote “Business Models for Bands and Musicians 2.0”. Today got Web 2.0 for Australian music client.
- Heads of agreement simplified. To simplify Australian law, employ students!
- I uploaded a YouTube video — People Contracts- Contractor or Employee?
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Contracts for Business Collaborators.
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Sell Your Concept.
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