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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

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In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result. The financial pain of unplanned delays.

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Bumble Rejects Match Group and Tinder With Full Page Ad

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Match Group just sued Bumble over patents, saying Bumble's app was identical to Tinder, after Bumble rejected Match Group's efforts to acquire the company. No matter the price tag, we'll never compromise our values." In its ad, Bumble said "We'll never be yours. Bumble's ad also told Match to "consider yourselves blocked."

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem. Find funders who seek long-term returns.

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Wasted time is money lost.

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result.

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