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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue. Not necessarily.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It has the dual technology patrons and yet the consistent story I get is that they’re not actively out embracing the startup community, helping local successes emerge, getting comfortable with the symbiotic benefits of some employees going to startups that innovate at a different pace and then buying up local teams, talent & IP.