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Ceres Gets Patent

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patent on a genetic sequence derived from corn. The company said the patent, U.S. 8,710,201, covers use of a gene in areas of research, product development, and seed production. PTO, the inventors of the patent were Nicholai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, and Kenneth Feldman. According to the U.S.

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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.

Ideas 97
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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume. There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 9/14/2012. Business model doesn’t make money.

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

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We have a long relationship with them, and have been funding research in their labs, and have a continuing relationship. We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. We refer to them as plastic solar panels.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

Tech Zulu Event

Our patent-pending technology delivers information extracted from scientific literatures on emerging risk. Praedicat is developing a comprehensive system of software products, Litagion Risk Management, designed to bring 21st Century science-based risk analytics to liability insurance. Praedicat, Inc.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Prior to that, he was chief product officer for LRN, the leading application service provider for online education and solutions enabling clients to manage enterprise-wide governance, ethics and compliance processes.

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

Tech Zulu Event

We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. Our biggest challenge has been to quickly build a product for a very competitive space that includes formidable players. When was it launched?