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How to Give Your Startup Idea The Sniff Test

Startup Professionals Musings

No known patents filed. Maybe the solution hasn’t yet been commercialized, but a patent has been submitted by someone else, putting your idea in jeopardy. Another series of searches on Google Patents and the US Patent Office site and Free Patents Online is in order at this point. Real customer pain and money.

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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. You can customize it for what you are doing exactly, whether that''s scuba diving, skiing, or jumping off a cliff, or doing a bunch of crazy stuff. I think a lot of it is because you can customize them on what you want to do specifically.

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Why Coachella Valley Is a Hub for Renewable Energy Startups

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Joe: I came to the Coachella Valley in January of 2012 to serve as the Founder and Managing Director of the Palm Springs iHub. Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints.

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Why Coachella Valley Is a Hub for Renewable Energy Startups

Tech.Co

Joe: I came to the Coachella Valley in January of 2012 to serve as the Founder and Managing Director of the Palm Springs iHub. Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints.

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

You may have the solution to the world hunger problem, but if your customers have no money, your business won’t last long. 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.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

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ZehnerGroup designs and builds custom websites that scale. Our patent-pending technology delivers information extracted from scientific literatures on emerging risk. Praedicat is an independent corporation launched in March 2012. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Praedicat, Inc. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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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. You can completely customize your Grokker experience into collections to create your own series of exercise and/or recipe how-to videos for easy access. So step by step, she began the works on what is now Grokker.com , the expert video network, to address this need.

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