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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see.

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Red Flags To Avoid When Talking About Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

A good answer might be “We have several patents on the base technology, which is so robust that we expect to roll out new products every year for the next ten years, always staying a step ahead of our competitors.” Our patent will protect us.” Patents are worthwhile, so this answer is far better than the first five.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see.

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Lenovo Purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion

Tech Zulu Event

In 2005, Lenovo first burst onto the scene by acquiring IBM’s PC line, namely the brand recognition of the Thinkpad line. Last week, they announced the acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business for approximately $2.3 Lenovo already has several impressive mobile phones, the K900, Vibe X and the new Vibe Z to name a few.

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Interview with Patrick O'Neill, olloclip

socalTECH

How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? First of all, tell us about what olloclip's products are? For my whole career, I've been in the technology business, working for IBM clone companies, storage companies, and then add on products for PDAs, and then working on early smartphones.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

socalTECH

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. What companies are looking for, and what they care about, are material events. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. Jeff Curie: Bitvore is an intelligence gathering and analysis system.

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Startups Who Hide Early Work Only Fool Themselves

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see.

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