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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

To harness both their own internal innovators and this new external ecosystem the Defense Department needs what I call an innovation doctrine to organize their efforts to rapidly access and mobilize talent and technology. The Pentagon can build a mindset, culture, and process to fix this.

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PowerInbox Aims To Transform Boring Static Email

YoungUpstarts

Founded in 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PowerInbox is an email technology company that hopes to do exactly that by enabling live, interactive email inside of most popular email services, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook. .” We’ve all heard that clarion call more than a few times.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

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Making Elections Resilient Against Pandemics

David Cohen

I’ve always been genuinely puzzled why so many people are against online and mobile voting. What are the arguments against mobile online voting? about the progress with online and mobile voting. Conversation: Making Elections Resilient Against Pandemics. COVID-19 is impacting everything — even elections.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. 1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants. 3gSimplified.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

Patent reform is high on the list of priorities for most of the tech industry, particularly in the areas of software, Internet and mobile technology. Giving privately held companies maximum room to maneuver as they raise funding from accredited investors and participate in secondary markets can only strengthen the startup ecosystem.

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Why Small Businesses Should Adopt A Geofencing Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Basically, an app (or other software) uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action when your mobile device enters or exits a virtual perimeter set up around a geographical location. We like to thinking of geo-fencing as extremely advanced mobile advertising based on physical location.