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Take a Tip From a Billionaire: Read the Book ‘Patent It Yourself’

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We’ve posted on GoPro before. Maybe we can take a reading recommendation from the mini-cam company’s billionaire CEO Nick Woodman. A tweet asked: ‘What’s the one book a BIT (Billionaire-In-Training) should read?’ Here is Woodman’s answer.

‘Patenting an idea can be really expensive and intimidating. When I was starting out, I read this terrific book called Patent It Yourself, by a lawyer named David Pressman. It was really straightforward. Using that book, I wrote GoPro’s first patent myself. It was this 60-page tome that I went maniacal on. When I took it to the attorneys to get their opinion and to see how much it would cost for them to finalize it, they told me I’d just saved myself a lot of money—I’d basically done the whole thing myself. More important, the book gave me a good understanding of what’s patentable and what’s not. For any entrepreneur who’s inventing something, it’s the one book you should read.’

YOUR TURN: Tweet your question to Businessweek with the hashtag #AskABillionaire.

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Phil Jackson Makes Controversial Comparisons On The Skills Of Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant (Video)

Legendary NBA coach Phil Jackson has coached 2 of the greatest NBA players to have ever played the game. For years he’s dodged the primary question most sports fans & reporters have desperately wanted him to answer. Now that he’s making the media rounds promoting his new book, Phil Jackson is finally speaking out. Phil Jackson compares Air Jordan to the Black Mamba in the above video of his interview with Jay Leno. Jay referenced Jackson’s book, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (due out May 21, 2013; available for pre-order at Amazon) in guiding their talk in this direction. In it, and in the above clip, Coach Jackson declares that both Jordan and Bryant are world class competitors; matched up in several aspects, but there are key differences, according to one of the few men in the world who can really say so. Coach ‘Zen Master’ also talks about how he set up a meeting between the two and his near-return to the Los Angeles Lakers’ bench. Kobe recently took to twitter & didn’t exactly seem too pleased with his former coach’s comparisons.  I’d have to agree with Phil though….

More video after the jump below…..

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J.PERIOD x Black Thought – “Rage Is Back” (Freestyle) [Clean]

Rage Is Back artIn celebration of the release of Adam Mansbach’s new novel “Rage Is Back”J.PERIOD features Black Thought (of Philly’s legendary crew The Roots) freestyling over Nas’ classic “N.Y. State of Mind.” The joint is entitled “Rage Is Back (Freestyle),” and it is the first single off the forthcoming J.PERIOD-produced “Rage Is Back” mixtape due out very soon.

J.PERIOD X BLACK THOUGHT – RAGE IS BACK (FREESTYLE) [CLEAN]

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