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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Here are some of the final Lessons Learned presentations and team videos: Akara Solutions: Flexible, Low Cost Cooling Technology for LED Lighting. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Artificial Membrane-based Ion Channel Screening. Part one of the posts on the NSF Innovation Corps is here , part two here.

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

What’s the best path for that kind of maker to circumvent the traditional distribution channels? The traditional channels, by the way, are still powerful. It’s made in Connecticut and a very, very successful product thanks to the meeting of those two generations.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Fortunately, there are a number of examples of successful founding teams that met outside of school.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.