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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

Steve Blank

Heck, up until its first shipment in 2015, it was science fiction. Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? government via Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). When I was a kid, this was science fiction. In the U.S. and/or the U.S.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. With this approach to establishing and tracking milestones, ReadyTalk launched its beta of UbiMeet.com in March 2015.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

ColdFire Brewing , a 10-barrel brewery, came online in December 2015, founded by Dan Hughes and his brother Stephen. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Keeping regulations in mind when starting a brewery.

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Are You An Inventor Or An Entrepreneur, Or Both?

Startup Professionals Musings

Now we have online information overload, more government regulations and easy worldwide access to alternatives. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/26/2015. The term entrepreneur has always been defined as a person who builds a new business, which may or may not involve inventing a product.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. They were accelerated and invested in by Techstars Boulder in 2015. I am a proud investor and advisor.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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