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7 Plan Elements That Separate Businesses From Hobbies

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Use concrete terms to quantify value and pain.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. Unless your venture is focused on researching potential scientific breakthroughs, it is likely that your technology can be easily copied and your patents circumvented.

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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

InfoChachkie

Most men in the 1940's and 50's did not know how to use a keyboard and thus could not write code. At an early age, many women are subtly discouraged from participating in science and technology, by unconscious cues sent by parents, teachers and their peers. It’s easy to diagnose the gender problem by pointing fingers.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

socalTECH

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Our first project was 3D imaging of the heart, so that doctors could study a pacemaker and defibrillator recall from the Alfred E.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Be sure to include this in your “elevator pitch,” which you must always deliver as a prelude to your technology features. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. and trademarks.

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