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Can you guess 10 tests for your success?

Berkonomics

The dominant player in any niche controls pricing for all those under it, and often sets the risk profile for new entrants into the niche if the dominant player’s products or services fill the needs of customers at reasonable prices and quality. Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor?

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

The Alliance estimates that Southern California’s tech community could be one-third the size of Silicon Valley’s by supporting or further developing the six pillars it already has for innovation to occur.

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Here are ten vision tests for your success

Berkonomics

The dominant player in any niche controls pricing for all those under it, and often sets the risk profile for new entrants into the niche if the dominant player’s products or services fill the needs of customers at reasonable prices and quality. Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor?

Patents 291
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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Bumble Rejects Match Group and Tinder With Full Page Ad

socalTECH

Female-centric dating app developer Bumble has responded to Match Group , the parent company of LA's Tinder , calling Match a "bully" in a full page ad in the New York Times and saying it has "swiped left" on the company. No matter the price tag, we'll never compromise our values." In its ad, Bumble said "We'll never be yours.

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Bio Roundup: Jazz Drug OK’d, Gilead’s Bet, Moderna Patent Decision & More

Xconomy

EQRx launched in January during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference with an audacious pledge to create 10 new drugs in as many years and then sell them at “dramatically” lower prices than existing medicines. Both drugs are anti-cancer molecules in mid-stage development that have been designed to hit known cancer targets. But not much.

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6 Ways To Extend Creativity To All Areas Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. If you study the Amazon 1-click patent long enough, you’ll likely find something of your own worth patenting. Stereotyped notions block clear vision and crowd out imagination. Think the unthinkable.

Ideas 171