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Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You?

InfoChachkie

He freely shared his ideas and technology with others in the hopes that such openness would advance his scientific field of study. This leads them to design and create the best technology, without regard for the myriad of customer-centric, non-product-oriented issues that contribute to a product’s ultimate success or failure.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“DARPA is saying you can’t retrofit [biosafety] into existing technology, you have to design it—not just into widgets and technologies, but into the institutions that are supporting the technologies.” Editas’s approach to safety, she said, is a “thoughtful design.”

Research 111
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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. You are going to “study” the details before making a decision. and then asking to take a brochure home with you. Yeah, sure.

Funding 336
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Startups Are A Remix

InfoChachkie

The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”. The collective 28-minutes required to view the videos will net you far more than another episode of Modern Family. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem.

Startup 255
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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She did the math and realized that she could bring in more money through Airbnb than she could by having a roommate. She not only rented out her room but also rented the couch. She focused on her customer.

Startup 363
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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

socalTECH

We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. We then got some additional funding, of essentially high net worth individuals, not insittutional funds.

USC 100
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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period.