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Tech Focus: Pressure to Improve Drug Development Drives Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Academic lab research concentrates heavily on advancing experimental science designs that emphasize the understanding of scientific mechanisms and publishing papers that explore phenomena, rather than developing commercialized data or products.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. They’ve been puzzling out what they would need to do to deploy their value proposition (a product, service or both). It’s tough.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. They’ve been puzzling out what they would need to do to deploy their value proposition (a product, service or both). It’s tough.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. And rebellion.

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Twitter Link Roundup #286 – Ideas for Small Business, Startups, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

ISIS Destroys One Of Syria’s Most Important Ancient Landmarks crowdspring.co/1K57Trv. This Personal Seismic Gadget Will Warn You Before The Big One Hits crowdspring.co/1NnRuVZ. With a Revamped Apple TV, Company Hopes to Camp in Your Home nytimes.com/2015/09/07/tec…. The Internet of Way Too Many Things nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opi….

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A Story About a Startup Founded by an Immigrant

The Startup Magazine

Language and cultural barriers can make it hard to convince others of the value of a product. All Cong Son Ta ever wanted out of life was a chance to make something of himself and contribute to society in a productive way. Now, Cong Son Ta helps people in need from Africa, Syria, Nepal, and more.

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Mastering SEO in the Age of AI

Duct Tape Marketing

You have a video of them, you have a headshot of them that looks really quite credible, and if you can even better get them to talk about what didn't work or why they almost didn't sign up with your service or buy your product, that's really quite compelling. We've been talking about voice search probably since Syria came around.

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