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7 Reasons That Investors Won’t Fund Inventions Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business. If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business startup experience. Commercialization requires infrastructure.

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Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition

Steve Blank

Our economic and foreign policy officials didn’t notice the four-alarm fire as we first gutted our manufacturing infrastructure and sent it to China (profits are better when you outsource); then passively stood by as our intellectual property was being siphoned off; and had no answer to China’s web of trade deals (China’s Belt and Road).

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7 Business Realities To Temper Invention Excitement

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business. If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business startup experience. Commercialization requires infrastructure.

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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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How Much Should You Get For Your Invention Idea?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business. If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business experience. Truly disruptive technologies carry an extra burden.

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7 Business Limits On That Million Dollar Invention

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business. If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business startup experience. Commercialization requires infrastructure.

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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. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life. Engineering Translational Technology Center.

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