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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark.