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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines /ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. We felt that we should be the brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world. I’ve spent more than two decades in the software industry. Photo credit: Ashwin Sokke.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

And 75% of vaccines in the developing world show signs of freezing, with an estimated one-fourth to one-third of all vaccines which are administered being ineffective. Nithya, together with a small team, developed an Internet-connected temperature sensor which travels with the vaccine fridge through the cold chain.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century. Consumer Internet Driving Innovation.

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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

YoungUpstarts

It can trawl the internet for mentions of your business or products. Tools like this quickly help you to develop a feel for what tactics work best. Meltzer, Using the Internet to Promote Services Exports by Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, February 2015, p.5. A number of free tools will help you do this. 2] [link]. [3]