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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art. The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). For example, approximately one-half of the art market worldwide is auction sales. The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? will transition to a similar system as a result of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011.)

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

what distribution channel? We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Fred Ford (MSME, Mar 2011) Senior Eng for Mechanical Systems on Military Satellites, BS Aerospace Eng (U of Michigan).

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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How Mobile Has Changed Live Music

Austin Startup

In Part 1 of this Markets overview for the live music industry , we covered issues related to live music recording, promotion, and sales and the role of mobile technology. by Sam Nachbar, guest mobileTech Tuesday. Cross-posted from The Appconomy ).

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. Photo Credit: David Moise. I worked for several IT consulting companies. Thanks to Anika Jackson. #17-

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Investors Companies.