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How to Be Ready for What’s Next

Duct Tape Marketing

He served as Chairman and CEO of Cree for 16 years where his team successfully led the LED lighting revolution not just by creating new products, but by focusing on solving old problems in completely new ways. What you’ll learn if you give a listen: How products that solve problems are marketing and sales success stories.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

We were on the University of North Carolina campus to meet with Fred Brooks and Henry Fuchs. Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent.

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Product Launches, Accolades and Other News. And, Trim was named as one of Business Insider’s top five budgeting apps. . Scanwell continues to work on bringing a Covid-19 antibody test to market.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. The key idea is that rent seeking behavior creates nothing of value.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. The key idea is that rent seeking behavior creates nothing of value.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We believe in the emotional connection between the consumer and our products. Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. How did it work out for me?

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Risk Management Issues in Healthcare

Board Effect

Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s survey considered the responses of 825 board directors and C-suite executives from around the world. State and federal governments, along with regulatory agencies, are cracking down significantly on coding and billing practices for every type of healthcare product and service.