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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

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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. Quite often when you’re offshoring and producing in another country there will be a proposal from the factory.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) The r­es­t is­ her­e: F­r­om­ N­othin­g­ To Som­ethin­g­ How To G­et Th… [.] Looking forward to the rest of the series and thank you for the advice.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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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.