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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play

TechCrunch LA

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Now Zweig is back again… this time pitching app developers a tool that can help convert browsers into buyers for new applications in app stores around the world.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. budget business e-commerce entrepreneur startup' Martin Zwilling.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. When doctors implant devices to replace a patient’s missing bones or support damaged bones, those devices were probably designed, developed, and/or manufactured in Warsaw. But there is more to Indiana’s economy and innovation than ag and manufacturing.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab. acquired Overture for $1.63

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. Whether they are building a marketplace, or building an e-commerce platform, understanding the growth metrics for a company is really the key.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. retailmarket is done through e-commerce. Yet, only four percent of the U.S.