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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

However, his first-hand knowledge of how software is created, tested and commercialized facilitated his execution of Microsoft’s initial strategy, in which it leveraged its operating system to create a suite of business productivity solutions. Banana IP. "Intellectual I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence.

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Interview with Thomas Russell, ETC Solar, Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

socalTECH

Thomas Russell: ETC Solar develops effectively transparent contacts for solar cell manufacturers, to improve their power output by five percent and to dramatically reduce manufacturing costs. Afterwards, we heavily engaged with the solar cell community to identify product-market-fit. What does ETC Solar do?

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M To bundle all of these components requires you to have customers with similar needs. in a seed funding round.

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Five Reasons for Setting Startup Strategy Early

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the origin of the “ solution looking for a problem ” and “ if we build it, they will come ” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings.

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. False Confidence.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. False Confidence.

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