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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples.

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Democratizing IoT Hardware Innovation For Startups – A Radical Approach To A Practical Problem

YoungUpstarts

by Jeffery Kang, CEO and founder, IngDan. By 2017, more than 50 percent of all IoT products will come from startups that are less than three years old ( Gartner ). It’s an election year. IoT hardware innovation democratization – What it is, and why the time is ripe to implement this radical new approach.