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Don’t Follow The Buzzwords For Small Business Technology

YoungUpstarts

Today’s technology landscape is littered with buzzwords and seemingly urgent exhortations for businesses: move to the cloud, spend time and money developing a mobile app, support mobility, and so on. Rather than focusing on technology as a cost centre, businesses should regard it as an innovation centre. Know your IT requirements.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place. Robotaxis – Robotaxi platforms could create $28 trillion in enterprise value in 2030.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech.

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Product Development Improvements That Are Shaping The World

The Startup Magazine

Now more than ever, plastics are very useful in product design because there are a lot of benefits of using plastic. You can create optimum plastic product designs by choosing the materials, tooling, and processes. Product designers can incorporate organic shapes, consolidate part designs, and emboss text into a cast.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself. Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. Your mileage may vary.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Or you could use open-source software to develop your product, which is often free or low-cost. Developed by the UK-based nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation, this tiny computer was designed to provide affordable access to computing education in schools. However, the impact of this frugal technology has been immense.

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