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[Event] [Singapore] Mobile Flea Market App Snapsell Wins Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

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Startup Weekend Singapore 2012 participants. Throughout the weekend, about 15 mentors came by to coach the teams in refining their business models, sharing best practices in application development, as well as fine-tuning their pitches during the final prototype presentation on Sunday evening.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

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The term “frugal innovation” was coined by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu in their 2012 book Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth. Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

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Samsung may have had more luck if it sacrificed great launch timing in favor of a better product. Nintendo released the Wii U in late 2012 with the intention of improving the original Wii U with better graphics and a more interactive controller. Thus the Gear turned out to be a bulky, superfluous, and expensive companion.

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

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Starting in 2016, Research and Development (R&D) tax credits can be used to offset payroll taxes. The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development.

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Top 5 Product Development Faux Pas in Startups

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4 This is important and highly encouraged along every step of the way in your product development process. If your product does not work, do not try to make it work, because you aren’t in control: the market is. Keep pivoting until you have a product that works, then you can scale. Sources Marion, T. and Simpson, T.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

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Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

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A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.

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