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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. Was there consumer demand? We grilled their IP attorneys.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. Customer Relationships answers the question, “How will we create demand and drive it to our channel?”

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8 Applications You Should Hunt Down On Your Network

YoungUpstarts

For 71% it became more important over the past five years due to an increase in the time spent using applications, coupled with an increase in their workload and more demanding deadlines. It should be noted that many of these support (or are primarily created for) a mobile platform, which companies will have a harder time blocking.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. So, yes, if someone really wants to read the article for free, they can copy the HTML from the Mobile-Friendly Test and load it into an HTML viewer. Search engines are vital for discoverability.

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 13-fold over the next five years and reach some 11.2 exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. And that’s just mobile data. More mobile users.

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Take Five: The Metaverse

VC Cafe

Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. digital collectibles) are only valuable if there’s an active market of supply < demand. But as trading volume (demand) goes down, so does the price and people will only buy them if they believe they will increase in value again.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. 6- Representation of a mobile and maternal mammal. We ruled out jumping insects like grasshoppers (not friendly enough) and mammals that already represented other on-demand businesses (rabbits for example). Buttercloth was born.

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