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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be.

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Eight Ben Franklin TechCelerator Finalists Chosen from Erie, Pennsylvania!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

These eight finalists, all located around Erie Pennsylvania, have innovative ideas that they will be working to enhance over the next 10 weeks, with help from Ben Franklin’s experienced business coaches. Hikes and Hose uses highly sustainable and durable outdoor gear products from recycled fabrics and firehose.

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Ben Franklin Alum Company, Sustainable Composites, In The News!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Sustainable Composites Introduces Recycled Enspire Leather To Market, And La-Z-Boy And Timberland Sign On! Mother nature doesn’t give up her secrets easily,” Fox shared with me from his Sustainable Composites office in Lancaster County, PA. “We Just grinding the leather up didn’t work so they had to use chemistry.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. Contributing to Sustainable Development.

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

You now transition from your mere focus on building a product to thinking more about building a viable business that sustains this product. Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful.

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State-funded program managed by i2E boosts Oklahoma innovation

Innovation 2 Enterprise

That’s why Oklahoma’s unique, pre-seed capital fund, Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP), is so critical to Oklahoma’s innovation economy. Building sustainable companies isn’t all about capital.). Results have been mixed. And for the last seven years TBFP has been self-funding.

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Scooters, Clear Lanes, And Permissionless Innovation

Haystack

Whereas Google and Facebook didn’t require permission to write the code for and distribute its products on the web, companies like Uber over the last decade and the rash of scooter outfits today require many points of permission to sustain. However, the previously-used methods of brute force feel less likely to work.