"@altus:
If you had paid attention all the way to the end of the article, you might have noticed this line: "It [Intellectual Ventures] just licensed off a cluster of its patents, for eighty million dollars."
A mere portion of the patented ideas have already made $80M."
"I'd just put the machine Starbucks stores in several key areas with a high concentration of wealth and coffee drinkers - New York comes to mind.
Make some promotional materials available and watch the uber-yuppy dollars roll in."
""...with our primary business, there is NEVER a need to lie or treat people poorly."
Implying that they DO need to lie and treat people poorly in other aspects of their business?"
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