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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. Kearney , for instance, found out that more than a third of US, France, and Germany weekly buyers have already signed up for subscriptions, whereas 12% are still debating this service. These new technologies will become an integral part of most e-shops.

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Critical Patent Strategies Startups Can Use From Large Companies

Up and Running

Startups constrained by tight budgets may lean toward economizing with a single patent for each product. Initially investing across a broad technological landscape securing multiple patents ensures a more difficult and expensive challenge for competitors to uncover design-arounds for each of the unique patents with any knock-off.

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In the Lean In Era, Business And Tech Still Fail To Promote Women; 4 Ways To Fix The Problem Now 

YoungUpstarts

Branson, author of “ The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity “ Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Women can lean in, education can push STEM, states may enact wage gap and family leave legislation. by Douglas M. Change the mindset, reallocate the burdens.

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Host a Livestream of The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. For the 2010 and 2011 Lean Startup conferences , we offered the complete conference for simulcast so that people could join in from their communities around the world. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. What inspired you to create Watch Together? Two things. What is unique about Watch Together?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. So please, go on!