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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Was there consumer demand? Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. No brainer. Were they ambitious? Did they have the right skills? Would they build a world class team.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Tech Checkup: Cloud Technology Redefining the Dental Industry

The Startup Magazine

The group structure of a DSO also provides the flexibility that this generation demands along with the potential for revenue growth through practice expansion. They’re immersed in it, have high expectations of what they can do with it, and demand the instant access they’ve always gotten from it. Millennial=Digital. About the author.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable. To follow this demand, some of the best venture capital firms in the world poured billions of dollars into these companies, making their valuations soar incredibly fast.

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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

by Eyal Shinar, CEO & Founder of Fundbox. Fundbox leverages Big Data analytics, engineering and predictive modeling to give small businesses credit-on-demand that is accessed through its existing account software so that the point of workflow is never disrupted. Everything big must first be small.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Pete Fader, Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, shares why in his book Customer Centricity : Not all customers deserve your company’s best efforts. It’s not always easy to identify instances when your business is at fault compared to times when a customer’s demands are unfair. What should you apologize for?

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Dr. Oksana Malysheva Helps Propel Startups at Sputnik ATX

Austin Startup

She earned her PhD in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and soon after, pivoted her focus to business and marketing. Founders who do well in our program have the readiness to do whatever it takes to scale their business. Were you surprised that so many founders applied to be part of the program?

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