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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. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2017.

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). Image Source. Interactive Interfaces.

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SXSW Startups: Apptronik Builds Robotics

Austin Startup

Questions below were answered by Apptronik Director of Innovation and Product Development Jeff Cardenas , who is part of the fast-growing hardware ecosystem in Austin. We have two systems currently under development: a high-performance walking biped and an exoskeleton. What does Apptronik have planned for 2018?

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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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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. Integrations.

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

YoungUpstarts

By 2017, more than 50 percent of all IoT products will come from startups that are less than three years old ( Gartner ). The rise of global open source hardware platforms offers tools for creating lower-cost IoT hardware, but the industry falls short when it comes to support for distribution and market awareness.