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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. However the reality is that a significant majority of products don’t succeed. An estimated 75 to 95 percent of new products fail in the marketplace.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. I expect businesses in multiple sectors that have been limping along in crisis mode since the pandemic to really start buckling due to chronic understaffing and a loss of any kind of institutional culture or experience.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. We shared all of this with our attorney before she helped us write our Operating Agreement (OA), so we assumed we were in good hands. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3%

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being a female entrepreneur in the tech world shows just how innovation works. And I am proud to be a successful female entrepreneur in the tech industry. Photo credit: Jenna Green. Thanks to Jenna Green, Moscow Muled ! #9- Thanks to Aaron Emmel, Pharmacy Tech Scholar ! #10- Thanks to Benjamin Parks ! #5-

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. According to Gartner, nearly 60% of datacenters point to power as their greatest facility problem, whether due to excessive heat generation or insufficient power.

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Strategy Roundtable: Spotlight On Jacksonville, Florida

ReadWriteStart

Eric has done some technology scouting, and believes he can deliver on the specs of the product. The problem, however, is that he is assuming that an investor would fund the product development. However, there are some serious operational complexities involved to make a solution like this work at scale. SustanAbin.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. There would be no Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or countless other job-creating tech companies today if early computers required corporate authorization to use.