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Music Prodigy Beats 70 Startups To Bring Music Education Technology to the Masses

Tech Zulu Event

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. Winning Combination.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

“Front-line staff are uniquely positioned to articulate clinically relevant needs and to articulate the design-based principles that can make our healthcare smarter and more human,” Monti said. To get the program off the ground, Monti applied for and received a $20,000 grant from Maine Medical Center’s Division of Education.

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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

InfoChachkie

Despite men's inroads into software development, many women continued to make significant contributions in the field of software design until the early 1970's. For instance, Margaret Hamilton’s work for NASA during the 1960's resulted in Apollo’s on-board guidance software and served as the foundation for ultra-reliable software design.

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

Xconomy

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. Indiana’s institutes of higher education have become centers of entrepreneurship, supporting their faculty, staff, and students.

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7 Strategies To Create Your Own Market And Win Bigger

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many founders still focus their product design and selling efforts only on direct paybacks to the customer. People need to be influenced and educated to change consumption habits, expectations, and buying patterns. Incent your team to continually think “outside-the-box.” Use social media and the media to build demand for change.

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10 Startup Mistakes You Can't Afford To Make Again

Startup Professionals Musings

If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. You need patents and trademarks as a barrier to entry. Confidently believe that you have no real competitors. Innovation in the face of a few competitors is much less risky.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab.

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