It's spring--which means students are thinking about internships & resumes.
You don't have to do it by the book--I built this originally for Seth back in '08, then realized I wanted to intern a few other places as well, so I sent them each a copy with a customized "Why do you want to work here?" speech bubble.
Landed me a summer externship with Seth, the month of August doing odd-jobs at TechStars, and November thru January working at TechCrunch.
I thought there was something about where if we're legitimately using the name, then even if we don't file the trademark, no one can come along after us and file for it... am I wrong?
Yes, if you are doing business with the mark you get precedence, especially if there is lots of documentation that it predates the filing.
However, be aware that everything I know about trademarks I learned over the an intense 6 week period when Sun was trying to figure out what to call Java (my suggestion was 'Silk' :-) and the browser (initially WebRunner but that was already in process by Apple/Taligent).
Do consult a lawyer, do file for a mark if you want to keep it.
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ekanes--Have you looked into setting these up like freeconferencecall.com where it dead-ends the calls out of a rural area so you can collect subsidies? (Not a fan of the legislation, but if it exists you can leverage it.)
Not sure how you'd do this using Twilio, but rather than routing the user straight to the number, you could route the user to the rural number and then place an outbound call from teh rural conference number and patch the two together
I was on my honeymoon in Hawaii and we didn't put together the application until after I got married, so we used two webcams and spliced 'em together...
For every three domains I buy, I probably keep one longer htan a year. And only half of those stay longer than two years (1/6). But those that last longer than two years are generally gonna stay around for a while--I bought them because I like the name, not because of a project sitting in my mind. Eg, AffinityScore.com just has a nice ring to it and would make a nice social ranking product or services business. (If you google "Affinity score" it's most often used by people describing EdgeRank...)
You don't have to do it by the book--I built this originally for Seth back in '08, then realized I wanted to intern a few other places as well, so I sent them each a copy with a customized "Why do you want to work here?" speech bubble.
Landed me a summer externship with Seth, the month of August doing odd-jobs at TechStars, and November thru January working at TechCrunch.