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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Understanding what industry stands a chance to succeed in the future is helpful in making investment decisions. No one wants their hard work to go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. Photo Credit: Struan Baird.

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[ADV] The Search For A Future Battery – Charge In Seconds, Last Months

YoungUpstarts

In fact, 60% of electric vehicles, phones, and laptops markets are using this type of battery. In fact, you may be already aware that some Samsung phones have caught on fire. The future will consist of fast charging phones and electronics that will charge in less than a minute. It does the job but it could be better.

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Zero Marginal Cost Energy

Version One Ventures

Earlier this year, I published a post that was very bullish on an emerging electricity grid powered primarily by distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar, wind, and batteries. With an overabundance of solar panels and turbines, we can quickly charge our batteries when there’s excess sunlight or wind.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part four. Part one is here , two is here and three is here. Syllabus is here. Week 4 of the class. Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Value Proposition (their company’s product or service.)

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Startup Shootaround: Making Sense of Voice Technology

View from Seed

It’s not as weird to say something to a phone or some other tech. It’s acceptable to just talk to your phone around other people — you don’t feel crazy. People are just listening to stuff on speaker phone all the time. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our latest shootaround on voice technology.

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

YoungUpstarts

Dinnertime phone calls from strangers in noisy call centers. by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “. Consider for a moment the annoying, interruptive, often obnoxious nature of traditional marketing. Pushy salespeople.

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Big markets are spinning up and disappearing faster and faster

The Equity Kicker

Walkmans were replaced by MP3 Players which were then usurped by phones on a similar timetable. PDAs and satnavs were usurped by mobile phones in about 15 years. Blogging got going in about 2005 before Twitter and a collection of other sites took the wind out of it’s sales over the last three years or so.