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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

So if entrepreneurs want to pioneer new ideas with a lean model, my advice is to use low cost alternatives to build differentiality that can be protected from institutions with far more money than ethics, creativity, or innovation-- other than skirting the loopholes in our justice system regarding protection of IP, and honing predatory tactics.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

New technology is allowing for computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases. Historically, searches for online images have been accomplished by searching for the meta-data associated with the image – the tags and words used to describe the picture.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

What unique insight do you have into the market dynamics or into a technological shift that makes this a fresh opportunity? Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Any IP you need to license? Jason Davies, SOS Technologies. What’s the minimum feature set ?

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