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7 Reasons That Investors Won’t Fund Inventions Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

Chinese factories also reverse engineer really well. This is not to condone the violation of intellectual property rights, but if you have a generic product you want manufactured, say, an antique door knob that you really like, a factory in China will be able to mass produce it for you in less time than any other factory in the world.

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7 Business Realities To Temper Invention Excitement

Startup Professionals Musings

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

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How Much Should You Get For Your Invention Idea?

Startup Professionals Musings

Many great technology solutions, such as hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make into a business. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities and new government regulations.

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7 Business Limits On That Million Dollar Invention

Startup Professionals Musings

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). business models. Fear of Failure.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. Engineering Translational Technology Center. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life.

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