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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

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McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. At present, no world patents or international patent process really exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. Marty Zwilling.

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How PolarPro's Photo Filters Are Riding The GoPro Wave

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We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012. Jeff Overall: We started just with the polarizing filter, but in late 2012 we started getting into the scuba diving market. It''s prevented outside competition from coming in, and prevented anyone from taking up any decent market share from us. READ MORE>>.

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

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If you expect to seek investors, or you expect to have a sustainable competitive advantage against sleeping giants, you need to register all your patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets early. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 9/14/2012. No intellectual property.

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

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About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. Woolas Hsieh: We certainly feel that flexible solar cells, particularly our plastic solar cells, are very competitive.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

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Our unique entrepreneurial spirit lends itself perfectly to launching the next great web startup or is generating that fresh spark to create a competitive advantage for a large corporation. Our patent-pending technology delivers information extracted from scientific literatures on emerging risk. Praedicat, Inc.

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Collect, Organize, and Share on LoveIt | Interview with Ron LaPierre Co-Founder & CEO

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We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. When we discussed the feedback we saw an opportunity to use our backgrounds in search and discovery to help us stand out from the competition. Our biggest challenge has been to quickly build a product for a very competitive space that includes formidable players.

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Grokker Wants to Help You Cook, Keep Fit and Meditate

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That was 2012. I founded Grokker in 2012. Grokker’s patent-pending approach allows us to cost effectively shoot and produce beautiful, compelling video classes of all kinds at scale. What makes you unique from the competition? Think of Grokker as a way to organize your personal health. Tell us more about yourself?

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