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7 Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in May 2024

Tech.Co

There are thousands of grants up for grabs through government website portals, but since this type of financing is designed to support the public, their eligibility criteria tend to be quite specific. The contracts are designated for specific industries where female-owned businesses are underrepresented.

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Why Unicorns Are No Longer Enough. The Battle for Hendecorns

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We offered a service that has a net promoter score of 87 placing us higher than such great brands as USAA, Costco, Apple and Amazon. That tested well, but it seems the press liked SnapChat better. They designed a device that you could strap to your head and help you remove bad thoughts & experiences.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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Building Products for Mass Adoption

Both Sides of the Table

I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company. Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals.

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Next Generation Hardware | Miselu Presents Musical Democracy at SXSW

Tech Zulu Event

Press, Pause, Play ‘s message of mediocrity is one that musical hardware device maker of this year’s SXSW, Miselu , plans to overcome. We can honestly say that it couldn’t have gone better for us with the phenomenal response we got from artists, press and potential partners. Yes, that is bold.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Getting press is sales. We didn’t even think about how we were going to answer calls… or how we were going to respond to everybody. Flip Burgers. Number one is sales.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. And that’s what I love about her narrative. Here’s what I learned about Tracy: 1. She started her business from a personal need.

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