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<span style="font-size: large;">The times <strike>are changing</strike> have changed. A new frontier industry has opened up in North America and in many parts of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>I'm talking about cannabis.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You're probably here because you are currently operating a legitimate cannabis-based business or are interested in starting one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are several things you need to know about the new laws, legislation, products and services that will help you build a sustainable and profitable business.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Marketing</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />There will be several rules around how a cannabis brand can market it;s products/services. these rules set out that there can be <b><u>NO</u></b> TV, radio, magazines or billboards used to market those products — unlike beer ads, marijuana is being treated more as a “sin product” similar to cigarettes and gambling, putting cannabis companies under very strict guidelines on how they can brand their bud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Are your marketing plans compliant with these new rules?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Graphic Design</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Logos used on packages can not be bigger than the federal THC warning signs and there will be 14 federal health warnings which will rotate on the packaging similar to what you seen on cigarette packs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Are your products compliant with these new rules?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Web Design</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your website, its functions and its navigability, will set you apart from your competitors. It will be vital that your website be mobile friendly and easy to use for everyone visiting it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Is your website ready to shine?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>E-Commerce</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In order to capitalize on the growing market of legal cannabis sales, you'll need an e-commerce platform to sell from. This means upkeep, updates and maintenance to ensure sales are logged, tracked and completed in a flawless manner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Is your online store set up and ready for launch?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Supply vs Demand</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It will be vital that you understand your audience and how best to reach them in the coming storm of new companies that will be present at the beginning of this wild-west cannabis industry. Once the dust settles, the most diligent, resourceful and knowledgable companies will remain. To reach this point with your company, you'll need to fully embrace supply and demand tactics so you can survive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Have you innovated something new?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Innovation</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition to a flood of new companies selling cannabis related products, there will be even more resellers and affiliates building on the products of other companies. It will be important to find, recruit and nourish your affiliates to help you sell your products. An important aspect of this will be for you to be as innovative as possible when creating your cannabis-based products. Think outside the box and you'll ensure victory for our business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Have you innovated something new?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Brand Development</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does your business have a brand that stands out? IT should or it's going to be lost amongst the array of businesses that will grow form this new industry. You'll need a professional studio to show you the ropes, guide you through development as they build systems and infrastructure that you can depend on as you focus on creating the most successful business you can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Is your brand a polished gem?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Action = Success</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This new industry is happening right now. Not tomorrow or not next month, right now. <u>You need to take action in order to compete.</u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Time = Money</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Developing your brand and business takes time. In order to ensure that you are ready to go sooner than later you'll need to take action right now... the longer you wait, the greater your chance of missing this new industry increase.</span><br />
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Red Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11632691694613447362noreply@blogger.comCanada56.130366 -106.34677099999999-9.4242829999999955 88.41885400000001 90 58.88760400000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-21673052030756747632018-05-14T14:57:00.002-07:002018-05-14T14:57:42.956-07:00Why Silicon Valley Doesn't Seem to Care About HR via Bloomberg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the latest episode of Tech Bros Behaving Badly, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler says she was propositioned by her boss and denied advancement because of her gender. Perhaps an even more egregious allegation is that the human resources department and senior managers at the company ignored her complaints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0084207D:US" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" title="Company Overview">Uber Technologies Inc.</a> now joins a growing list of Silicon Valley companies that seem unable – or unwilling – to address bad behavior in the workplace, particularly if it's directed at women. This isn't an accident, experts say: It's partly a consequence of a growth-at-all-costs environment that sees human resources as a drag on the mission. Some new companies also see human resources professionals as rule-bound killjoys, anathema to the work-hard, play-hard culture of startups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"You're in a race to build your product and get to market, and anything that doesn't directly contribute to that, including HR and even financial controls, is low priority when you're first starting up," said Magdalena Yesil, an early investor in more than 30 technology companies including <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CRMCHF:EU" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" title="Company Overview">Salesforce.com Inc.</a> "Of course, without HR at a time when you're hiring very quickly, you don't have anyone training new employees about what behavior is acceptable or not."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new company should have an experienced human resources manager by the time they have about 100 employees, Yesil said. At that point, they need someone who can oversee performance issues, compensation plans and management training.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most technology startups wait far longer. A study in California Management Review in 2010 found that after five years, about a third of all new companies don't have a human resources planning or evaluation system in place. Uber hired its first senior HR executive, Renee Atwood, in February 2014, around the same time Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick came under fire for <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions?currentPage=1" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="Kalanick GQ interview">a GQ interview</a> in which he referred to the aphrodisiac quality of starting his company as "Boob-er." By then Uber already had more than 500 employees and a $13 billion valuation, according to Recode.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Often it takes a public relations or legal crisis. Snapchat brought in a senior HR executive to build a department in 2014 after misogynistic emails written by the chief executive officer were leaked to the press. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0560908D:US" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" title="Company Overview">GitHub Inc.</a>, the web service for sharing and collaborating on code, didn't hire a senior HR executive until 2015, seven years after it was founded, when a female engineer <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-06/why-github-finally-abandoned-its-bossless-workplace" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" target="_blank" title="Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace (1)">publicly described</a> a culture of bullying and disrespect toward women. The company now requires its about 600 employees to get diversity and inclusion training.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The situation that occurred at Uber is common ... because HR doesn't exist or is weak," said Y-Vonne Hutchinson, founder of ReadySet, a diversity consultant in Oakland, California. It's a bad sign when the senior-most human resources person at the company lacks a leadership role and the explicit support of the CEO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Silicon Valley companies finally hire HR staff, they often do so with a handful of narrow priorities in mind: recruiting and retention. If a top performer bullies colleagues or subordinates, they decide it's more important to keep him happy than to address the concerns of his targets.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"If your biggest priority is keeping your rock-star engineer happy, and you get a harassment complaint about him, you may ignore the written guidelines about what you're supposed to do," said Joelle Emerson, CEO of Paradigm, a diversity consultancy whose clients include <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0276900Z:US" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" title="Company Overview">Pinterest Inc.</a> and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/9865065Z:US" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" title="Company Overview">Airbnb Inc.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The embarrassment of sexual harassment scandals, coupled with poor or negligent corporate response, may catch up with startup culture eventually. Meanwhile, some research suggests that well-developed management, including human resources, can be good for the bottom line. In a survey of all kinds of companies, Yale University professor James Baron found that startups with human resources professionals are nearly 40 percent less likely to fail and 40 percent more likely to go public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's more, venture capitalists seem to be coming around. More VC-backed companies have human resources systems in place by the third year than those that have other sources of funding, according to a 2010 paper in the California Management Review. One of the biggest mistakes a new company can make is failing to take HR seriously, wrote Marc Andreessen in a 2014 blog post -- after more than one startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz suffered criticism for sexism and disrespect toward women. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andreessen Horowitz is an investor in GitHub and also Zenefits, an online HR software company that had <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-zenefits/" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" target="_blank" title="Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup. Then It Self-Disrupted.">some epic HR problems</a>, including employees having sex and drinking in the office stairwells."Even though it is absolutely worth training company leadership in good HR practices, most managers are dangerously amateur at doing actual HR," Andreessen wrote. "Without smart, effective HR, terrible internal managerial and employee behavior leads to a toxic culture that can catalyze into a catastrophic ethical – and legal – crisis."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some Uber investors aren't happy, either. Mitch and Freada Kapor, spouses and partners at <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/9467694Z:US" itemprop="StoryLink" itemscope="itemscope" title="Company Overview">Kapor Capital</a> and Uber investors since 2010, publicly criticized the company for tapping insiders to investigate allegations of harassment and discrimination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"To us, this decision is yet another example of Uber's continued unwillingness to be open, transparent and direct," they wrote in a blog post. "As investors, it is now up to us to call out the inherent conflicts of interest…The group (investigating at Uber) is not set up to come up with an accurate analysis of the culture and a tough set of recommendations."</span><br />
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<i><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-27/uber-like-bad-behavior-thrives-in-absence-of-human-resources" target="_blank">Article reposted from Bloomberg</a></i><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-46603857913578900932018-05-12T02:06:00.004-07:002018-05-12T02:06:44.598-07:003D Printing in the Military - 3DPrint.com<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3D printing has many military applications. Militaries around the world have been working on developing 3D printing technologies, using 3D printing for prototypes, developing their own fablabs and using the technology in aircraft and other military vehicles. Many millions have been invested in 3D printing technologies and getting them ready for production in the field. Millions more have been invested in developing fundamentally new technologies. Currently there is a 3D printing arms race quietly developing between China and the United States. Many commanders and planners have realized that 3D printing is a technology with both strategic and tactical implications. In this article we'll give you an overview of, much of, what is happening with the military and 3D printing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A modern military is essentially UPS with guns. Around six men support one in the field. Every kilo of food, water, fuel, ammunition, clothing has to be protected, redirected, unpacked, labeled and carried to the warfighter who needs it. Each kilo requires men to drive trucks, people to escort these trucks, bases to house them and this then requires more food, trucks and other supplies. A pyramid of escalating need and requirement for supplies. If the military economizes on weight it not only saves that one kilo that has to be shipped but the many additional kilos needed to arrange and protect this original shipment. In 2017, an army still marches on its stomach. Meanwhile warfare is becoming, for NATO forces especially, a more technologically advanced affair. In Gulf War I, many Apache helicopters were grounded. The most advanced helicopter in the world, a tank killer pur sang, was sidelined for a lot of the war. What use is the most advanced equipment in the world if you can't use it? The reason the Apache was grounded was that sand entered the helicopter fans making them unusable. In Gulf War II it took the US military 14 months to upgrades its Humvees to sufficiently withstand IEDs. One of the highest sources of casualties was partially due to IEDs but also due to the US military's procurement system, which is slow and inefficient. As much as 30% of US air and Naval power is currently unusable at any given moment due to maintenance. Upgrades, parts and refits in the field and solutions to unanticipated problems are crucial to making an army work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No plan survives contact with the enemy, although some equipment survives contact with the field. Since the beginning of war fighting the individual soldier has been improvising and finding their own solutions for problems in the field. This can range from bringing their own equipment or experimenting with whatever they can find. Essentially with a Maker-like mentality this improvisation has had a huge impact. The planner and procurement officer buys the equipment they think that, based on a specification, the soldier needs. The soldier then uses this as a baseline to create what works in the field. It was however something by the grunt for the grunt. This improvisation and making took place outside of the military of ranks, procedures and rules. Now militaries are realizing that they can harass this improvisational "can do spirit" in a more formalized way by using 3D printing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A US military Fablab in Afghanistan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The main way militaries are formalizing existing informal "hardware hacking" by the soldier in the field is through fablabs. In several theaters fablabs have been deployed. Some have desktop 3D printers, others industrial machines. Still other fablabs have a whole host of equipment such as casting, CNC, laser cutting, lathes and 3D printers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">REFA good example of what a fablab can bring the individual soldier is the US Army's Rapid Equipping Force Fablabs project in Afghanistan. In this project a mobile fablab was placed in theater. This fablab has 3D printers, laser cutters, milling machines and other equipment. The idea was to quickly assist troops with 3D printing items that they needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An example of this was the M249 bipod attachment. The M249 is the main SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon)/LMG (light machine gun) of the US Army. It is meant to give small units suppressive fire and high rates of automatic fire. It is a key weapon especially when assaulting or trying to overcome ambushes or sustained assaults. This weapon has been in use since 1984 and has served in every major US conflict since. Over time there were some issues reported with it. In Afghanistan US troops gave feedback on the gun and reported a key issue with the weapon because of its bipod: "The standard issue M249 bipod attachment does not allow for horizontal movement, restricting the weapon capability." Essentially you could not strafe or move the gun horizontally so each time you had to engage a new target the weapon had to be picked up and repositioned. "In less than one week, the Lab developed and fit a new attachment that extends the range of M249 movement." The problem was identified, a solution was prototyped using 3D printing and then a milled metal part was put into service within a week. This is lightspeed compared with the many months that it would have normally taken a modern military to produce a solution for such an issue. Additionally, based on soldier feedback this solution could be reengineered or improved further still. 3D printing gives military commanders and warfighters agility in engineering specific rapid solutions to their problems in the field. As the environment or battle evolve so can their equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">IED detector Light mount, 3D printed by the REF lab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In another example IED detectors could not work at night, greatly diminishing their usefulness and the safety of soldiers. A 3D printed mount for IED detector lights was made that let soldiers use them at night. This increased their safety and the REF fablab then worked with the military to quickly produce 500 units of these IED detector light holders for use in the field. A custom made, custom designed solution fit for purpose and developed quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">EfficiencyIn addition to being more effective and developing equipment that has not been made yet fablabs can also bring efficiency. A military brings in lots of equipment and this is encased in lots of packaging. If this packaging can be recycled into 3D printing materials then new things can be made in an efficient manner. This is why militaries around the world are looking at recycling ammunition casings, food packaging and other items into 3D printed things using filament recyclers and other equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In prosthetics and individual wear such as shoes 3D printing also has a role to play by letting medical staff 3D print out individual prosthetics in the field. Fab labs are an emerging phenomenon but are not confined to land-based fablabs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the US Navy's newest warships is currently out of commission. The reason? Maintenance and repair. Especially for very technologically advanced countries the tip of the spear grows ever sharper and ever more brittle. A modern warship is like a roving college campus with much more gear and a far greater appreciation for fire safety. The amount of equipment, sensors, wiring, computing power, electrical equipment and machinery is intense. If critical parts break, the warship, no matter how sophisticated, is out of commission. A multi-million or multi-billion dollar ship, sitting in a harbor unusable, but for want of a single part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This explains why the <a href="https://3dprint.com/112962/fab-labs-uss-harry-truman/">US Navy is looking at putting metal 3D printers and fablabs on board surface ships</a>. I personally think that, depending on the 3D printing technology used, this could be a spectacularly ill-advised idea. Some technologies are an inherent fire hazard and could lead to serious issues onboard ships if they malfunctioned. There are very few things in the world that like to burn quite like titanium powder does. The idea in and of itself, however, is a sound one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If spare parts can be 3D printed then ships can stay at sea longer and be effective for longer periods. Iterative improvements in technologies or upgrades while at sea are also tantalizing glimpses in a more technology-flexible future for the military.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An Optomec LENS system repairing a turbine blade for a joint project with GE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also on land the military is looking to 3D printing for MRO operations. Maintenance and repair is being conducted by using 3D printed parts. The most prevalent are <a href="https://3dprint.com/163663/sciaky-ebam-3d-print-submarine/">probably Sciaky</a> and <a href="https://3dprint.com/156113/optomec-lens-machine-tool-formnext/">Optomec</a> repaired turbine blades. Turbine blades on tanks and aircraft provide a lot of the power to a modern military. When turbine blades are worn down you could either make an entirely new blade or turn to 3D printing. By using Sciaky's EBAM technology or Optomec's LENS technology the worn turbine blade is rejuvenated. The existing blade is put on the 3D printer and new material is added to it. Usually excess material is then removed by CNC or another process. The result? The turbine blade is good as new but at lower cost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's more, repair parts can now be made on demand or close to the incident. In one case the <a href="https://3dprint.com/12009/3d-printing-repair-aircraft/">US Navy's Fleet Readiness Center East 3D printed plastic parts</a> overnight which were then used to create repair parts for a Harrier aircraft that had made a hard landing that night. Much media excitement about 3D printing is centered around direct printing of parts but often 3D printing also works well in combination with existing technologies. Such a quick repair saved the Navy several weeks of downtime for the plane and increased their readiness overnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3D printed plastic parts used to make repair parts for a Navy jet made on a Stratasys Fortus system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In refits where in some cases a limited run of aircraft for example have to be upgraded 3D printing is being used more prevalently. Aircraft themselves are a rather small series affair comparatively. But, upgrading these "50 F series Radar Aircraft to the G series variant" is a very small affair indeed. Rather than make a new production line, new moulds, new tooling and then start 3D printing lets small series of aircraft parts, tools, jigs, fixtures and moulds be 3D printed. This lowers the cost for the contractor and lets them complete the work faster. Of the public information available BAE Systems has said that it has used 3D printing to make refit parts for Tornado aircraft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Boeing built and flew this drone within a month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As with almost any product development, 3D printing is used extensively in making military prototypes. Additionally however many of these prototypes are put directly into service. Accelerating the procurement process and making it more efficient is a key priority for the US military in particular. Increasingly small run or niche military products are quickly being developed using 3D printing. Requested by the warfighter currently in the field, a quick solution is 3D printed and a new specifically developed product is pressed into their hands. Especially in the US Special Operations community this kind of use of 3D printing is undergoing a significant increase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://editorial.3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sciaky_3D_Printed_metal_part_JSF_nonclass_public_joris.png"><img alt="A Sciaky EBAM 3D Printed metal part for the JSF. " class="wp-image-165571 size-full" src="http://editorial.3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sciaky_3D_Printed_metal_part_JSF_nonclass_public_joris.png" height="206" sizes="(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px" srcset="https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sciaky_3D_Printed_metal_part_JSF_nonclass_public_joris.png 462w, https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sciaky_3D_Printed_metal_part_JSF_nonclass_public_joris-300x155.png 300w" width="400" /></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Sciaky EBAM 3D Printed metal part for the JSF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There may be as many as 800 3D printed parts on the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning). Plastics 3D printing technologies, high-temperature plastic 3D printing and multiple metal 3D printing were all commercialized for aviation for the JSF. Which is just so much more than just a group hug for Lockheed. It is also a Trojan horse for the industrialization of 3D printing for aviation by companies not called Boeing. Lockheed and partners were far behind Boeing in using 3D printing for space and aviation. Boeing had a huge operational lead on getting parts on aircraft and producing prototypes faster. Some spy drone programs let Lockheed catch up and the JSF program has given the company much needed expertise in developing 3D printed drones and aircraft parts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In aviation 3D printed parts let you save weight which means that the performance of the aircraft will increase dramatically and directly as a result. You can also reduce your number of parts significantly saving on production time, storage, risk and up front investment. You can iterate faster, improve faster and costs will be lower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One area where this has had the most effects is with drones. A significant amount of production capacity in North American 3D printing services was used for drones. Drone prototypes exhibited all the advantages 3D printing had to offer in terms of quick iterations, weight savings and the reduction of parts. Since everyone wanted their own drone at one point the series were small and lots of versions had to be made from man packable drones to drones for use on aircraft carriers and intelligence drones. These small series would have normally required a lot of upfront investment in tooling and time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many drone manufacturers instead decided to use 3D printing in the final drone. By 3D printing final parts such as struts, wings, inlets, housings and structural parts they could save money and time and get to market quickly. They could also further improve and iterate their drone parts while further offering customized solutions for other militaries. Drones did not have the same certification and qualification requirements that aircraft did so it was much easier to put these parts into service. Many contractors have since adopted 3D printing more widely in manufacturing. Companies are using powder bed fusion in metals and plastics, fused deposition modelling, EBAM, EBM and other technologies to directly produce parts for these drones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://editorial.3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Raytheon_3D_printing_entire_Missile.jpg"><img alt="A Raytheon 3D printed demo missile." class="wp-image-165576 size-medium" src="http://editorial.3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Raytheon_3D_printing_entire_Missile-300x200.jpg" height="266" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Raytheon_3D_printing_entire_Missile-300x200.jpg 300w, https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Raytheon_3D_printing_entire_Missile.jpg 694w" width="400" /></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Raytheon 3D printed demo missile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Similarly aerospace and military contractors have been working in 3D printing missiles for over a decade. Raytheon and others want to make completely 3D printed missiles with all the components made with 3D printing. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3d-printed-drone-swarms-future-war-joris-peels">Raytheon says that</a>, its "researchers have created nearly every component of a guided weapon using 3-D printing, including rocket engines, fins, parts for the guidance and control systems, and more." Technologies are being developed to let them do this. Lighter missiles which are faster to make would benefit the contractor and the military. The <a href="https://3dprint.com/125470/navy-trident-missile-launch/">Trident Missile program</a> is a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile that is armed with thermonuclear warheads. Due to legacy costs and the complexities of <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-navy-contracts-with-metal-technology-for-additive-manufacturi%20%20%20ng-on-trident-missle-system-300240340.html">manufacturing the Trident missile D5 program</a> is looking to reduce these costs by using 3D printing. One complex assembly of parts consisting of individually made parts will then be 3D printed in metal in one production step. The same reasons why 3D printing is an interesting technology for civilian aircraft, manufacturing and product development make them good technologies for militaries worldwide to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The military will adopt and use any available technology that is of use to it. In the case of 3D printing militaries have been investing considerably in 3D printing since the mid-nineties. 3D printing has the potential to make military equipment faster and with less cost than other processes. Simultaneously weight can be saved on the final part and this part can be designed in novel ways. 3D printing accelerates product development, saves money on getting new things made and lets one integrate functionality, parts and assembly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Considerable investments are being made worldwide to develop, qualify and certify 3D printed parts for the military. We must accept that the technology that we love so dearly will be used in ways that may not be acceptable to us. 3D printing has the potential to fundamentally alter the way many things are being made from Yoda heads to nuclear missiles. It is important to realize however that when governments extol the virtues of 3D printing and promote these technologies or invest in them they are not doing so in order to repair the button of your washing machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are strategic and tactical reasons for them to master this technology and win in an emerging 3D printing arms race. Discuss in the <a href="http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.php?28973-Military-3D-Printing-Around-the-World">Military 3D Printing</a> forum at 3DPB.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Brandon Schatz learned in December 2012 that Kansas City, Kansas had become the first city in the nation to get Google Fiber, a superfast Internet service, he started making plans to move his nascent sports photography business there. The day after Christmas, he drove the 165 miles from his home in Springfield, Missouri, to check it out. By February 1, he had settled into his new house. By February 4, he was connected to the network.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was exactly what officials had wanted. When the area (first Kansas City, Kansas, with Kansas City, Missouri added weeks later) won a challenge to be the first to get Google Fiber, local boosters celebrated, hoping to kickstart an economic renaissance: attracting entrepreneurs, cultivating emerging business districts, and becoming known as a major startup hub.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Four years later, Schatz's company <a href="https://www.sportsphotos.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="Sports Photography Community and Marketplace">Sportsphotos.com</a>, which takes photos of amateur sporting events around the country, is growing slowly. He's taking full advantage of the speedy internet, uploading hundreds of high-resolution photos in minutes from races and other matches. But the business isn't yet where he wants it to be, and for now Schatz's main source of income is web development work and renting out rooms in his home on Airbnb. On a recent Sunday, Schatz sat in his home, where he also operates his company, pecking away at a desktop, surrounded by pizza boxes. "I thought we would be huge already," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Schatz's disappointment is a tale of misplaced expectations, by both entrepreneurs and city leaders. (The challenges that he and other startup founders face is the subject of the latest episode of the Decrypted podcast; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/decrypted/id1161880916?mt=2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">subscribe here on iTunes</a>.) In 2011 the cities' two mayors called Fiber's then-future deployment "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," and a way to "spark economic development." And for Google, which since significantly has pared down support for the project, it was a case of placing too much faith in the ability of its own technology to change lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's also been hard for the Kansas City area to become the boom town that leaders dreamed of. Some entrepreneurs, like Schatz, were drawn to the city because of the fiber, and some launched businesses. A "startup village" sprang up. But few of the companies really took off, and some frustrated founders ended up decamping to San Francisco, where there was a larger talent pool and greater access to capital. Even the best of intentions and super-speedy internet isn't enough to create a new Silicon Valley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every year after Alphabet Inc.'s Google's first fiber connections lit up in late 2012, greater Kansas City's GDP growth has fallen well short of the national average. In 2015, it was just 1.5%, compared to 2.6% for the nation as a whole. Metro regional numbers aren't yet available for all of 2016, although based on state numbers through the third quarter, both Kansas and Missouri seem to be beating the national average.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We're scratching our heads a little bit," said Jeff Pinkerton of the Mid America Regional Council, a nonprofit that conducts economic research for greater Kansas City. "Why is Kansas City really not taking off, especially with this asset like Google Fiber?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Google came to town in 2011. At Wyandotte High School auditorium, on the Kansas side, blue, red, yellow and green spotlights shone on a parade of dignitaries who addressed the audience. Google founder Sergey Brin spoke on a prerecorded video. After the announcement about fiber going into Kansas City, a Google vice president invited the crowd to a barbecue-laden celebration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kansas City beat out more than 1,000 other cities for the debut Google fiber project, which aimed to compete against the telecommunications and cable giants that have dominated the market for Internet access. Some analysts believed the ultimate goal was to encourage those competitors to improve their own services and thus the Internet experience overall, which would bolster the environment for Alphabet's most lucrative business: online search.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mayors of both cities announced a team of civic leaders to figure out how best to leverage fiber, in entrepreneurship as well as other areas such as education. The group released a plan in 2012 that made recommendations ranging from nurturing technology districts to supporting tax credits for small technology businesses to creating mentor networks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite budget challenges, the state of Kansas has stuck by a preexisting income tax credit of up to $50,000 for angel backers who invest in a young company. Working with a group called Techstars, Kansas City-based Sprint Corp. created an incubator for startups. The Kauffman Foundation, a think tank based in Kansas City, Mo., started a weekly gathering for entrepreneurs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An area straddling State Line Road, the border, became the first neighborhood that Google wired for fiber, and a community of founders sprang up. The district, which had zoning laws that made it easier to run a business from home, became known as Startup Village. That's where Schatz, the owner of Sportsphotos.com, moved into a rental house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was an online video about the Kansas City experiment that drew him. He realized that Google Fiber could be the key to his nascent business: Batches of photos that took 40 to 50 hours to upload would be done in less than one. "It's a little nerdy, to see this video and be all kinds of inspired," says Schatz, 34, a boyish looking former U.S. army sergeant whose tours of duty included Bosnia. "But I was inspired."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet in practice, a dazzling Internet connection didn't mean much for some businesses. Mike Farmer operated his startup, Leap, a search engine, out of a Startup Village house for a while. "What do you do with gigabit speed that makes the experience more relevant?" he recalls asking his team. They goofed around with ideas, such as having search results take the form of several high-definition Netflix movies streaming at the same time. Given that most users wouldn't have gigabit Internet, Leap never did find the right scenario. Farmer wound down the business last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The true power of Google fiber is exposure," says Matthew Marcus, executive director of the Kansas City Startup Foundation and co-leader of the Startup Village, referring to the publicity the technology brought to the city's startup community. "The fact is, it's really difficult to consume one gigabit of speed."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some startups have contended with the lack of access to a big talent pool. Tech companies in Silicon Valley, Waterloo, Canada, and New York City, tend to hire from nearby universities with strong software-engineering programs. The schools with the strongest engineering schools in the region are more than two hours away from Kansas City, though.Funding has also been a problem in Kansas City. Entrepreneurs lamented that local investors looked for the type of traction that would merit tens of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley venture firms. But if businesses achieve that, Midwestern venture firms invest just single-digit millions. Lack of access to capital contributed to the departure of two promising Kansas City startups, bond marketplace Neighborly and green-homebuilder Acre, which both moved most operations to Silicon Valley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"There are plenty of angels that will write $50,000 checks, but there's not that much bridge," says Sandy Kemper, chief executive officer of Fairway, Kansas-based C2FO, a working-capital finance company he founded in 2008. Kemper turned to big investors outside Kansas City, including San Francisco's Mithril Capital and Singapore's Temasek Holdings, for most of his backing. In his hometown, "there is a finer filter, and maybe a little bit higher hurdle."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One advantage cited by many local entrepreneurs, low costs, can actually backfire. "It might be a misplaced sense of comfort," says Ajay Royan, the general partner at Mithril Capital who invested in C2FO. He believes the best entrepreneurs work with an intensity driven by the reality of global competition—a reality too easily lost sight of in a low-pressure, low-cost environment. "If you get comfortable with the fact that things seem to be going well in Kansas City," he says, and don't think beyond it, "that's bad."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">C2FO is one many other entrepreneurs hope will eventually list on a public market and raise hundreds of millions of dollars, with a valuation north of a billion. It has already raised $99 million and is used by some of the world's biggest companies, including Acer, Costco, BNSF Railway, and Pfizer. That type of public offering, more than anything, would truly foster entrepreneurship in Kansas City, entrepreneurs say. It would show existing investors the upside of investing more than a few thousand dollars in startups, along with creating a class of richly rewarded early employees who would in turn likely become investors in other startups—or founders of their own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lance LeMay, a venture capitalist at Kansas City, Missouri-based Open Air Equity Partners who invested in Kemper's and Farmer's companies, said boosting the venture-backed startup ecosystem in Kansas City won't even take that much. "More than a billion-dollar exit, you need lots of successful exits," he said. "You don't need a home run. You need lots of doubles."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the years that Kansas City has been trying to make the most out of Fiber, Google has been doing the same. In early days, company executives talked it up, with executive chairman Eric Schmidt telling conference goers in late 2012 that of all the company's current innovations, including self-driving cars, it was Google's "most compelling on many levels," something that "changes your life." Shortly afterward, it started announcing more cities for the project, beginning with Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah. In 2013, the company recruited Craig Barratt, a wireless chip industry veteran, to lead the group that included Fiber. In 2015, when Google became Alphabet, Barratt was given the title of CEO. Over time, Google Fiber announced it would expand into 21 cities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But just as Kansas City might have overestimated the asset Google Fiber could become, Google overestimated Fiber's impact, and its expansion plans deflated. Barratt left in October 2016, surprising many employees. The same day, the unit announced it was stalling expansion plans in eight cities and cutting 9 percent of its staff. This month, Alphabet hired Barratt's replacement, broadband executive Gregory McCray, and further slimmed Fiber, shifting hundreds of its employees over to Google's core Internet business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fiber is now in only nine locations, including Atlanta and Orange County, Calif. Other Bets, the part of Alphabet that Google Fiber belongs to, reported losses of $3.58 billion last year on revenue of $809 million. It also contributed to Other Bets' $1.39 billion in capital expenditures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A number of factors lay behind Fiber's strategic shift. Former employees said a chief reason was the discrepancy between the desires of Google's co-founders to expand the service and make it faster and the demanding costs of providing it. Cable incumbents moved aggressively, introducing similar high-speed services at low prices. Unexpected political hurdles emerged. In Louisville, Kentucky, for instance, AT&T and Charter Communications sued Google Fiber over a wonky utility-bill regulation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Google invested in Fiber during a time when it was willing to make lots of big investments with uncertain or long-term returns, but over the last couple of years Google has become a different place," says Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research. "It doesn't necessarily make sense for Alphabet to continue to invest in it as heavily at this point."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Schatz recently changed his business model. Instead of getting amateur athletes to pay for the photos, they download them for free, with sponsorship fees providing his revenue. Having observed the reluctance of local investors to back companies that lack strong income, he is working to build relationships with big sports retailers and fitness companies that could sponsor the blanket photography of the events he shoots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The race-photography business alone is worth $20 to $50 million annually a year on sponsorships, he calculates; add in other amateur sports and expanded marketing initiatives and it could be exponentially more. But for now, he's capturing just a tiny portion; revenue last year doubled but was still under $100,000, he says. This year, he hopes to keep growing and achieve profitability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He knows developing ties to potential sponsors would be much easier in a city like New York or Los Angeles, but he believes he can pull it off from the heartland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes, he thinks back to advice a venture capitalist gave him a few years ago, to drop everything else and focus only on his business. The laid-back atmosphere in Kansas City made it easier to put that advice aside, he says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It probably would have been good to have extra pressure," he says now. Still, he says perks such as a community of fellow entrepreneurs make him happy he stayed put.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, some of the original startup supporters in Startup Village have sold their real estate to non-entrepreneurs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After Google Fiber came to town, Brad Feld, a venture capitalist at Boulder, Colo.-based Foundry Group bought a bungalow in Startup Village for use, gratis, by a promising young company. For a time, Leap's Farmer housed interns there. Today, a start-up engineer lives in the house. On a recent visit, a layer of dark fuzz and grime obscured floors. A vacuum cleaner stood at the far end of the main room, plugged in but apparently unused. A side room lacked furniture, but did sport a large pile of clothing flung in its center. A skittish cat bolted across the kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three doors down the street, Schatz has decided to launch an intense search for financial backers. An early port of call: Silicon Valley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">—With Mark Bergen</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It can no longer be avoided. It has taken hold and is set as the go-to solution for both new and established companies. It's Digital Marketing and it's power is undisputed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With 2017 about two enter it's second quarter, now is the time to integrate digital marketing into your business goals. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to out-pace your competitors.
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<span style="font-size: large;">As businesses around the world continue to adapt to the ever-changing field of digital marketing, demand for digital marketers and content curators has now exceeded supply, according to new study.
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<span style="font-size: large;">The study, completed by McKinley Marketing Partners, indicates that digital marketing opportunities are the most in demand for marketing departments. This is closely followed by advertising and content (creation and curation) skills in new hires.
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Key points I've taken from the McKinley study:</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">> Demand is exceeding supply for digital marketing skills and talent</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">> Nearly half of companies surveyed have committed to attaining digital marketing specialists in 2017</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">> Traditional marketing will see the highest cuts and budget constraints as companies dive further into the digital realm</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">> The total number of marketers with digital skills has not increased to meet demand while over half of all new marketing hires will be specifically for digital skills and capabilities.</span></li>
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<a href="http://pages.mckinleymarketingpartners.com/BD_WC-2017FEB22-ALL-WP-HiringTrends_ContentRequestPage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">You can download the full report here</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What does this tell you about the direction of your own business goals and ambitions in 2017?
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my opinion, this should be telling you get in gear for digital marketing. Your business, no matter if it's small or large, needs to take steps towards digital marketing solutions.
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<span style="font-size: large;">The traditional marketing methods that you may be using are rapidly becoming outdated. Today’s ever-changing digital world presents new opportunities (and challenges) for entrepreneurs to effectively target prospective and current customers. You are acutely aware that an online presence is vital to the future of your business, but are you taking the steps forward to embrace it?
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<span style="font-size: large;">You're probably thinking that attaining digital marketing services is costly and not something you have the budget for. You're probably right.
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is hope.
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<span style="font-size: large;">With a strategic digital marketing plan, you can keep your organization ahead of the game — without the stressful cost of learning by trial and error or having to find huge budgets. A professional digital marketing plan will be the most intelligent and worthwhile investment for your business in 2017.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Digital marketing isn’t a fad. It’s not a trend. And it’s not going to disappear. In fact, as the McKinley report indicates, it’s growing at an exponential rate. It's time to take action towards the solutions and applicable strategies you need to take control of digital platforms and make it work successfully for your business.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is a hotlist of the key points you'll need to focus on to begin you digital marketing strategy:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">> Decide on the goals you need to reach that will define what success means for your business</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These simple points will help you get started and give you information for making decisions that will give you the best results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To learn more about digital marketing and why a professional can get you started with a bang, <a href="http://www.theredrabbit.com/p/business-development-services.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">click here</span></a>. The Red Rabbit Studio has you covered, at any budget level.</span></div>
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</script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comVancouver, BC, Canada49.2827291 -123.1207375000000249.1169156 -123.44346100000001 49.448542599999996 -122.79801400000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-5044997548152378522017-02-27T14:00:00.000-08:002017-02-27T14:00:05.915-08:00ProtoCycler: the desktop filament maker aiming to make 3D printing more sustainable - 3ders.org (blog)<br />
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ReDeTec is looking to impact desktop 3D printing in a big way, by making it a more environmentally sustainable and cost-efficient process. With its all-new ProtoCycler machine, the Toronto-based startup is offering makers an efficient way to reuse and make their own 3D printing filament at home. Initially launched through an <a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/20141219-protocycler-a-fully-integrated-desktop-filament-extruder-grinder-launches-on-indiegogo.html" target="_blank">Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign</a> in 2014 (which raised 146% of its $50K goal), the ProtoCycler is nearly ready to ship.<br />
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Once you have a 3D printer at home or in the office, the only real costs that follow you around are for 3D printing materials. And while filaments range in price significantly, having to buy new spools regularly to keep up with your making needs can really put a dent in your bank account. In addition to costs, physically seeing how much plastic is used for your prints (especially failed ones or rough prototypes) can be disheartening from an ecological perspective.<br />
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Of course, buying filaments made from recycled materials is a good solution for your environmental concerns, though perhaps less so for your financial ones. That's where ReDeTec comes in with its ProtoCycler: the only desktop recycler system in the world that includes a built-in grinder, diameter feedback, and automatic spooling.<br />
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According to ReDeTec founder Dennon Oosterman, the ProtoCycler is also the only desktop filament recycler with a third-party safety certified extrusion system. Called MixFlow, ReDeTec's patent-pending plastic extrusion process does away with the problematic drill bit/wood auger system that many extruders use and instead integrates a "proper extrusion grade screw," which allows for the recycled plastic pellets to be melted consistently and smoothly.<br />
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Oosterman and the ReDeTec team were inspired to develop their own desktop filament recycling device at university. As he told 3Ders, "We first became interested in 3D printing when our lab at the University of British Columbia got some 3D printers. We used them quite a bit for our engineering degree and thought it would be a good class project to recycle some of the waste back into 3D printer filament. It turned out to be far more difficult than we'd hoped!"<br />
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Aiming to fill a gap in the home 3D printing market, the dedicated ReDeTec team set about developing the ProtoCycler. Now, in the final stages of readying its product, the startup is hoping that it will help to make desktop 3D printing more sustainable. So far, the UL Certified ProtoCycler is equipped to produce ABS and PLA filament, though its developers have suggested that more types of plastic materials (printable at 260 degrees or lower) will soon also be extrudable.<br />
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Excitingly, ReDeTec was recently recognized for its work at Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) 2017, the world's largest startup competition, judged by Sir Richard Branson. While Vantage Robotics took home first prize for its innovative flying camera, ReDeTec was awarded third place for its ProtoCycler device.<br />
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The experience at XTC 2017 was incredible, says Oosterman. "The people we met and the publicity we've gotten since have been incredible," he told 3Ders. "And it's generated some fundraising interest as well, which is always helpful. I would highly recommend applying to XTC for anyone starting a business that will impact the world in a positive way, as the network of people you meet is truly the best I've come across in my time with ReDeTec!"<br />
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The ProtoCycler can be ordered through ReDeTec's <a href="http://www.redetec.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, and is retailing for $900.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Alex Chen and his brother Harrison wanted to get their ping pong-playing robot up and running, it wasn't Silicon Valley they turned to for help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead it was Shenzhen, a former fishing village bordering Hong Kong that has the strongest claim to be China's answer to Silicon Valley. About a thousand startup accelerators are active in the city, drawn by its proximity to factories capable to churning out all manner of gadgets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Source:</b> This article was curated form the original for Bloomberg and can be read here: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24/why-china-s-silicon-valley-is-a-magnet-for-tech-millennials">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24/why-china-s-silicon-valley-is-a-magnet-for-tech-millennials</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-36102691752458566292017-02-27T06:30:00.000-08:002017-02-27T06:30:28.665-08:00Why benefits of 3D printing are attracting more manufacturers - TechTargetRain Wang couldn't have started the sunglasses manufacturing company Skelmet Inc. without the customization capabilities of 3D printing. Indeed, the technology is what enabled a vision to become a physical reality, albeit one that still needs financial backing from crowdsourced investors.<br />
Skelmet, co-founded by Wang and James Cao in Cambridge, Mass., uses algorithmic scanning to capture the unique shapes of an individual's head to create customized sunglasses. But the process would have ended there if not for a <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/feature/Manufacturers-making-major-3-D-printing-technology-investments">3D printer's ability</a> to shape nylon plastic into eyewear that, Wang said, is perfectly tailored for each customer's distinctive facial contours.<br />
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"<a href="http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/3-D-printing-rapid-prototyping-stereolighography-or-architectural-modeling">3D printing technology is</a> absolutely amazing for customized products," she said. "It creates small structures, [which] traditional molding can't do."<br />
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<b>Benefits of 3D printing coming to production processes </b><br />
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Skelmet is one of many companies either complementing or moving past long-standing manufacturing methods, such as molding, to embrace the flexibility and responsiveness of 3D printing.<br />
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Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing's agile ability to turn digital models into solid objects continues to attract attention, and now has many manufacturing companies adding the technology <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/feature/3D-printing-a-key-piece-of-digital-manufacturing-puzzle">to their production processes</a>, even if they outsource the printing capability itself.<br />
Just over 70% of manufacturers have found a way to use 3D printing, according to a 2016 <a href="http://www.pwc.com/us/en/industrial-products/publications/assets/pwc-next-manufacturing-3d-printing-comes-of-age.pdf" target="_blank">survey</a> by PwC and the Manufacturing Institute. Prototyping is currently the most popular use, with just over a third of manufacturers using additive manufacturing for prototyping only. But that use is expanding. Although many once saw 3D printing as best confined to low-volume specialty use, 52% of manufacturers now expect to use the technology in high-volume production processes within the next five years.<br />
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Fortune 500 companies, such as General Electric, Boeing and Ford, have made headlines for incorporating 3D printing into their in-house parts manufacturing processes. But beyond the headlines, many <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/feature/3D-technology-additive-manufacturing-speeds-production">other companies</a> recognize the potential of 3D printing and are closely researching how and when they should invest in the technology, according to Jack Beuth, a mechanical engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering.<br />
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Manufacturers of metal components have a particularly strong interest in 3D printing, and are trying to figure out the specific benefits of 3D printing in terms of their production processes, Beuth said of the companies that consult with Carnegie Mellon's Next Manufacturing Center, of which he is the director. These companies are reviewing capital and labor costs before purchasing the printers, while many others, for now, are outsourcing 3D printing. A few are buying the machinery, he said.<br />
Far removed from Cambridge and the plastics of sunglasses, Vector Space Systems also sees potential in 3D printing and, last year, used it to create a fuel injector that's been successfully tested on one of the company's rocket engines. Vector hopes that 3D printing can someday make a space-ready injector that weighs less than those made with a traditional lathe. In the aerospace industry, weight reduction in even fractions can save big money in the long run of rocket production.<br />
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By creating a honeycomb injector structure that's almost as strong as a conventionally produced one, unnecessary solid material can be removed. There are still many more tests to conduct -- including those that must assure the residual powders of printing don't obstruct any injector orifices -- but Garvey believes, if progress continues, in a few years, Vector will strongly consider purchasing its own industrial 3D printer to at least complement lathe manufacturing.<br />
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"Cost is definitely an element, but for us, we're not trying to save on costs," Garvey said. "We're looking for innovation and turning around rocket fuel performance. We'll even pay more for that."<br />
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<b>Cost complicates the benefits of 3D printing </b><br />
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Despite the widespread interest noted in the PwC and Manufacturing Institute survey, manufacturers noted strong barriers to adoption, and cost was an important one. But, like additive manufacturing itself, <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/tip/IT-Challenge-Using-3D-printing-in-manufacturing">the issue has</a> many layers.<br />
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Large companies that can afford 3D printing should purchase a machine not just for basic production, but also for developing prototypes for testing or tooling, Carnegie Mellon's Beuth said. Companies that use metal 3D printers can also work outside of variable sets, and can use different powers in the machine -- both value-added features of such an investment.<br />
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If you can make any kind of positive cost-effect argument for buying a machine now, you should do it, because 3D printing is progressing. Jack BeuthCarnegie Mellon College of Engineering<br />
"If you can make any kind of positive cost-effect argument for buying a machine now, you should do it, because 3D printing is progressing," Beuth said. Particularly, "3D printing for metals is in the same place now that personal computers were in the mid-1980s. As that [progression] showed, things <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/tip/3-D-printing-evolves-finds-unique-place-in-manufacturing">change fast</a>."<br />
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Still, cost is a challenge for small companies and entrepreneurs, and they will have to outsource, sending computer-aided design files to 3D printing farms, Beuth said.<br />
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That's what Spencer Wright, a product designer who owns a single-person shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., does. He designs high-end bicycle components and sends the configurations to a metal 3D printing farm to manufacture. He also has experience with polymer 3D printing, an area that Beuth sees as the next to advance.<br />
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"Some companies are building entire business models around 3D printing," Wright said. "Every manufacturing technology has its limitations, and that's true of 3D printing. But it has unique and interesting design challenges, and that's fascinating. There's a chance to <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/answer/How-is-manufacturing-benefiting-from-3D-printing-technology">explore this new</a> kind of design and create a line of parts."<br />
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<b>Source:</b> This article was curated form the original written by Albert McKeon for Tech Target and can be read here: <a href="http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/feature/Why-benefits-of-3D-printing-are-attracting-more-manufacturers">http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/feature/Why-benefits-of-3D-printing-are-attracting-more-manufacturers</a><br />
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In this edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry digest, we feature Artec 3D, Threeding, ColorFabb, NeoMetrix Technologies, Creaform, EnvisionTec, Twindom, Zahn Dental, and Formlabs.<br />
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3D scanning company Artec and 3D printing marketplace Threeding scanned a private palaeontology collection. To scan the fossils, Artec Spider and Eva scanners were used.<br />
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In other news involving scanning to preserve historic artifacts, 3D Printing Industry are on the road with <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/inside-private-art-collections-scan-world-106451/">Jonathan Beck of Scan the World</a> as he travels around France capturing 3D scans of ancient artworks. <a href="http://3dprintingindustry.com/contact-us/#_newsletter">Subscribe to our newsletter</a> to make sure you don't miss our next article about the Scan the World cultural heritage project.<br />
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<img alt="The scanning of process. Photo via Threeding. " class="size-full wp-image-106574" height="266" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" src="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d.jpeg" srcset="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d-150x100.jpeg 150w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d-200x133.jpeg 200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d-500x333.jpeg 500w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d-600x400.jpeg 600w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Threeding-artec-3d.jpeg 620w" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The scanning of process. Photo via Threeding.</span></div>
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<b>NeoMetrix Technologies announces reseller status for Creaform</b><br />
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NeoMetrix has sold Creaform's 3D scanning products since 2010. Now, the company has strategic reseller status. Creaform are the producers of several scanning devices such as the HandySCAN700 and MetraSCAN Elite 3D Scanners. While NeoMetrix Technologies of Florida are an additive manufacturing solutions company.<br />
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Dan Perreault, President of NeoMetrix Technologies, said, We believe that we achieved this level of success with Creaform products because of our philosophy of addressing each specific customer's needs, rather than just pushing to sell products.<br />
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Dutch filament company, ColorFabb has announced a new headquarters in Belfeld, Netherlands. Having started out in a small garage, the company are understandably very proud of their progress.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The new headquarters. Photo via ColorFabb.</span></div>
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Regarding this new location, the company said, We have an ambitious vision and to accomplish this vision we need the right tools. Moving into the new building is important for colorFabb, since it enables us to bring that vision to reality in 2017 and beyond.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The filament production area. Photo via ColorFabb.</span></div>
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<b>EnvisionTec unveils new printer</b><br />
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The Vida cDLM 3D printer, from EnvisionTec was announced during Chicago's <a href="http://lmtmag.com/lmtlabday">LMT Lab day</a>. The 3D printer uses the Continuous Digital Light Manufacturing (cDLM) technique and is intended for the dental industry.<br />
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Al Siblani, CEO, said, We are excited to bring the Vida cDLM to the dental industry. Our expanding dental 3D printer line is now unrivalled for productivity, accuracy and flexibility of materials.<br />
The dental sector is increasing making use of 3D printing, as <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/dental-company-straumann-looks-get-teeth-3d-printing-105895/">Straumann recently announced they are looking to acquire a 3D printing company</a>.<br />
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T<span style="font-size: x-small;">he Vida cDLM 3D printer. Image via EnvisionTec.</span></div>
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Dental company to retail Formlabs 3D printers<br />
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Also in the world of dentistry, Zahn Dental, <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-scanning-teeth-showcased-novembers-greater-new-york-dental-meeting-99279/">a Henry Schein company</a>, will sell Formlabs SLA 3D printers. Zahn Dental is the largest distributor to dental laboratories in North America. This announcement adds commercial validation to the 3D printing industry's value proposition for the dental industry. As 3D Printing Industry recently reported <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/dubai-dental-authority-will-begin-3d-printing-teeth-year-104967/">Dubai's Dental Authority hoping to begin 3D printing teeth later this year</a>.<br />
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Ken Haldeman, General Manager at Zahn Dental said the agreement, "underscores our commitment to providing customers with digital solutions they can rely on for their surgical needs."<br />
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By continuing to offer innovative material and technology, we – together with our partners, such as Formlabs – are helping drive the adoption of digital dentistry, which is powered by 3D printing.<br />
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Twindom releases updated 3D body scanner<br />
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Californian scanning company Twindom has updated their portable body scanner. According to Twindom, the device can now be assembled in just 20 minutes. This due to a new twist and lock feature which means there is no need to fiddle with screws or bolts.<br />
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Twindom, as well as their clients, transport the scanner to a number of events to scan customers. For this reason, to assemble the device quickly and easily is obviously very beneficial. Will Drevno, one of the co-founders of Twindom said, One of the biggest asks we would get from customers taking their Twinstants to lots of events to sell 3D printed figurines, were for making the setup process simpler.<br />
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In addition, the company has also tweaked their software to create a more seamless scanning process.<br />
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<b>Source:</b> This article was curated form the original written by Corey Clarke for #D Printing Industry and can be read here: <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/sliced-3d-printing-digest-artec-3d-colorfabb-creaform-envisiontecs-new-printer-formlabs-partnership-106571/">https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/sliced-3d-printing-digest-artec-3d-colorfabb-creaform-envisiontecs-new-printer-formlabs-partnership-106571/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-52431468725436453782017-02-26T07:30:00.000-08:002017-02-26T07:30:08.148-08:00Apple and Silicon Valley Struggle to Navigate Trump's Waters - The Mac Observer (blog)In the weeks since his inauguration, there has been much discussion about President Trump's relationship with the media. Rightly so. Media is not alone in feeling the affects of the chaotic political climate that we are currently experiencing. The ramifications are also clear in tech, where companies have struggled to balance politics and business, even as the two intersect one another like never before.<br />
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A number of leading figures in Silicon Valley, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, voiced their dislike of Trump's travel ban against people from seven muslim-majority countries.<br />
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In an <a href="http://www.recode.net/2017/1/28/14425952/tim-cook-donald-trump">email to Apple staff obtained by Recode</a> back in January, Mr. Cook said: "Apple would not exist without immigration, let alone thrive and innovate the way we do. I've heard from many of you who are deeply concerned about the executive order issued yesterday restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. I share your concerns. It is not a policy we support."<br />
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<a href="https://www.macobserver.com/cool-stuff-found/tim-cook-speaks-university-glasgow-video/">Speaking at Glasgow University</a> a couple of weeks later, Cook quoted one his idols, Martin Luther King. He seemed to be urging others to speak out. "Dr King said something so incredible, it wouldn't be the actions of people that would be the problem, it would be the appalling silence of the good people. I think that's a lesson to all of us. If we stand and say nothing, it's as if we agree. We become a part of it," Cook said.<br />
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You can add into this difficult mix the possibility that US Customs may begin asking foreigners for the passwords to their social media accounts as part of a new vetting process. Appearing before House Committee on Homeland Security, new Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said: "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say? If they don't want to cooperate then you don't come in."<br />
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Data privacy, even in cases relating to terrorism, is something that Apple has fought previous US governments on. It's also a subject that both interests liberal-leaning Silicon Valley and has the potential for harming business for U.S. tech companies.<br />
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Apple, then, is something of an outlier among many major corporations. It has a history of speaking out on a variety of political and social issues. For many, owning Apple products is arguably as much about expressing a set of values as it is owning a phone or a laptop. After-all, this is the company that always pitched itself as the anti-establishment rebels with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g">that advert</a>.<br />
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The company is also big enough that it has some cover. It's not likely any President would do anything that really threatens Apple in any major way.<br />
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Other companies, though, are in a more difficult position. They are trying to maintain lines of communication with an administration many—but not all—oppose. Senior Valley figures have been pictured in meetings with the new President, as shown in the photo above. Access to any president is important for business, and this hasn't changed just because there's a new president. At the same time, though, a revamped Executive Order on immigration on its way. That's likely to raise a ruckus from Silicon Valley again.<br />
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All of which speaks to the difficulty Apple and the rest of the tech world are having and will continue to have in navigating the new waters of Donald Trump's presidency.<br />
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<b>Source: </b>This article was curated form the original written by Charlotte Henry for Mac Observer and can be read here: <a href="https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-silicon-valley-struggle-navigate-trump-waters/">https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-silicon-valley-struggle-navigate-trump-waters/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-41001802132980081662017-02-25T14:00:00.000-08:002017-02-25T14:00:25.420-08:00Honey-like inks lead to a new 3D printing method - 3D Printing IndustryResearch at the University of Akron, Ohio has developed a new method of 3D printing by extruding inks from a nozzle in layers and using light to simultaneously cure it. The technique is termed "Direct-print photopolymerization for 3D printing" and works in almost opposite way to traditional stereolithography (SLA).<br />
Direct 3D printing in comparison to SLA<br />
Stereolithography (SLA) is the technique used in 3D printers from companies such as <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/beautiful-high-definition-sla-prints-dws-3d-printers-100758/">DWS, 3D Systems and Formlabs</a>.<br />
<img alt="3D Systems Figure 4 prints. Photo by Michael Petch" class="size-large wp-image-101895" height="625" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-1024x625.png" srcset="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-200x122.png 200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-300x183.png 300w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-400x244.png 400w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-500x305.png 500w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-600x366.png 600w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-80 0x488.png 800w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-1024x625.png 1024w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624-1200x733.png 1200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-19.45.54-e1487599003624.png 1358w" width="1024" /><br />
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3D Systems Figure 4 prints. Photo by Michael Petch</div>
Using light and photopolymers has certain advantages, in particular the resolution and level of detail it is possible to achieve. However, the disadvantage of is that many resins used in the process contain solvents, and so aren't suitable for all applications, i.e. in medicine.<br />
This method from the University of Akron proposes a method of direct writing of ink into a layered object, rather than forming something out of an entire vat of material. The inks are also solvent-free so they can be applied in more toxicity sensitive areas of industry.<br />
<img alt="The first 3D printer 3D Systems' SLA-1. Photo by Michael Petch" class="size-full wp-image-106601" height="640" sizes="(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px" src="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch.jpg" srcset="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-66x66.jpg 66w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-200x201.jpg 200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-298x300.jpg 298w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-400x402.jpg 400w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-497x500.jpg 497w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-conten t/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-600x604.jpg 600w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch-800x805.jpg 800w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/The-first-3D-printer-3D-Systems-SLA-1.-Photo-by-Michael-Petch.jpg 835w" width="636" /><br />
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The first 3D printer: 3D Systems' SLA-1. Photo by Michael Petch</div>
Honey-like inks<br />
The process of direct-print photopolymerization (DPP) relies upon engineering the rheological properties of an ink so that it is liquid when being extruded, for fluidity of design, but quickly becomes solid to allow the formation of layers.<br />
To create the ink researchers used existing resins as a base including FullCure® 930 and TangoPlus from Stratasys. 3D Printing Industry recently took at look at how these resins were used to make a <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printed-robotic-fish-unlocks-secrets-brain-105279/">multi-material robotic fish at the Tandon School of Engineering and the Politecnico di Torino.</a> Usually, these resins would be extruded purely as a liquid, as seen in the figure below.<br />
<img alt="(a) Extrusion of liquid resin, (b) extrusion of the modified viscoelastic ink. Photos via Morteza Vatani & and Jae-Won Choi " class="wp-image-106568 size-full" height="399" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" src="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b.jpg" srcset="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b-200x121.jpg 200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b-300x181.jpg 300w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b-400x242.jpg 400w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b-500x302.jpg 500w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b-600x363.jpg 600w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/ wp-content/uploads/2017/02/liquid-newtonian-ink-a-modifiied-viscoelastic-ink-b.jpg 660w" width="660" /><br />
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(a) Extrusion of liquid resin, (b) extrusion of the modified viscoelastic ink. Photos via Morteza Vatani & Jae-Won Choi</div>
To manage the rate at which the ink flows and becomes solid, fumed silica powders were added to resins, allowing for the honeyed texture, that also cures when an external lamp is applied.<br />
<img alt="Setup of the DPP system. Image via Morteza Vatani & and Jae-Won Choi" class="wp-image-106570 size-large" height="358" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-1024x573.png" srcset="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-200x112.png 200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-300x168.png 300w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-400x224.png 400w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-500x280.png 500w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-600x336.png 600w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-800x448.png 800w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Sh ot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-1024x573.png 1024w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15-1200x672.png 1200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-24-at-11.07.15.png 1468w" width="640" /><br />
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Setup of the DPP system. Image via Morteza Vatani & Jae-Won Choi</div>
As a result, a type of viscoelastic ink is created, one that is both thick and honey-like, but also stretchy.<br />
"a highly flexible and powerful route" leading towards reliable large-scale 3D printing<br />
Having both viscous and elastic qualities allows for the flow and structural integrity require of a 3D printed object. Engineering the rheology of this material in this way, without such intensive use of light-curing, allows the specific creation of certain mechanical, physical and electrical functionalities with a DPP 3D printed part.<br />
<img alt="DPP 3D printed parts including (f) with embedded electronics. Photos via Morteza Vatani & and Jae-Won Choi" class="wp-image-106569 size-large" height="640" sizes="(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px" src="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-664x1024.jpg" srcset="https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-194x300.jpg 194w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-200x309.jpg 200w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-324x500.jpg 324w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-400x617.jpg 400w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-600x926.jpg 600w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-664x1024.jpg 664w, https://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks-800x1234.jpg 800w, http s://3dprintingindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/printed-in-various-inks.jpg 825w" width="415" /><br />
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DPP 3D printed parts including (f) with embedded electronics. Photos via Morteza Vatani & Jae-Won Choi</div>
The conclusion of the research paper finds that DPP is "a highly flexible and powerful route for the fabrication of complex 3D polymeric structures". In the future, "a large-scale fabrication process will be investigated while shrinkage and curling due to uneven curing rates across the layer need to be eliminated or minimized".<br />
The full paper on Direct-print photopolymerization for 3D printing <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/RPJ-11-2015-0172">can be read here in the Rapid Prototyping Journal 2017</a>. The research is co-authored by Professor Morteza Vatani who specialises in the additive manufacturing of metallic and ceramic devices, and Dr. Jae-Won Choi associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Akron.<br />
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Source: This article was curated form the original written by BEAU JACKSON for Business Insider and can be read here: <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/honey-like-inks-lead-new-3d-printing-method-106565/">https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/honey-like-inks-lead-new-3d-printing-method-106565/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-24485115367925320042017-02-25T09:00:00.000-08:002017-02-25T09:00:15.444-08:00These 'normal Silicon Valley houses' hide test labs - The Mercury NewsIn Silicon Valley, the house next door might not be full of techies, but it could be stuffed with tech products.<br />
Up in the East San Jose hills, where suburban developments give way to isolated homesteads, Netgear rents a house where it tries out equipment to make sure it's ready for market. Nestled into a residential neighborhood in Menlo Park, startup Plume rents a new two-story house to test its Wi-Fi system. On Communications Hill in San Jose, KB Home has a model house to show off the smart home products customers can get preinstalled. And startup Abode uses three homes rented by its co-founders as its labs.<br />
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Above: This living room and kitchen at a model home at the Promenade at Communications Hill in San Jose by KB Home features smart devices that can be controlled using a smartphone or tablet.</div>
From San Jose to San Francisco, companies that are inventing the future are increasingly turning to houses to test and show off their products before they are rolled out to consumers nationwide.<br />
"This is where the sausage gets made," said Plume CEO Fahri Diner. "This is literally our test house."<br />
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Take Netgear. The Wi-Fi router maker rents a 2,500 square-foot, two-story home in the hills east of San Jose's Alum Rock neighborhood. From the outside, the mauve-colored house looks unremarkable, except for the large plot of land it sits on.<br />
But inside, along with furniture like couches, tables, chairs and beds, the home is full of routers, televisions, computers, tablets and smartphones. Those devices are used to test and measure the signals coming from Netgear's Wi-Fi devices. Pretty much all of Netgear's Wi-Fi products, except for its lowest-end devices, get tested at the house — sometimes multiple times — before they head to store shelves, said Mark Merrill, the company's chief technology officer.<br />
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Above: This nursery at the Promenade development is outfitted with temperature and carbon monoxide sensors.</div>
The location of the company's San Jose house, which it first started renting more than four years ago, is no accident. Netgear was looking for a place that was close to its North San Jose headquarters so its engineers could easily swap out equipment or make adjustments. But it wanted a location where it wouldn't have to worry about competing with signals from nearby houses.<br />
<img alt="Netgear CTO Mark Merrill photographed in a home rented by his company in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Tech companies have sometimes bought or rented houses to test their equipment in real world environments. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" data-src="https://i2.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sjm-techhouse-02xx-15.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px" data-srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sjm-techhouse-02xx-15.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 620w,https://i2.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sjm-techhouse-02xx-15.jpg?w=210&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 210w" height="520" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sjm-techhouse-02xx-15.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px" width="640" />Mark Merrill, Netgear's chief technology officer, stands among some of the equipment his company tests at a house it rents in t he East San Jose hills. Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group <br />
"We wanted a place where we could do real-world testing without too much interference," Merrill said.<br />
Plume took the opposite approach: it wanted its equipment to compete with other signals. The company's Wi-Fi devices are controlled from cloud servers that are programmed to switch channels on the fly depending on demand and interference, said Diner, its CEO.<br />
It also wanted a house close to its Palo Alto headquarters; it previously had a larger home it used in San Mateo.<br />
Plume's been testing its Wi-Fi system in the house since late 2015, soon after the home was built. It has set up loads of equipment — some $20,000 worth of smart televisions, game consoles, computers and smart home gadgets — to test and stress the home's Wi-Fi network.<br />
"We wanted to make our system very resistant and consumer tolerant," Diner said.<br />
Another startup, Abode, has a different spin on the Valley-home-as-tech-lab trend. The company, which offers a smart home and house security system, uses the homes rented by its founders to test out its equipment. In an older, two-story Mission-style home he rents in Saratoga, co-founder Chris Carney has set up automatic door locks, sensors that can tell if windows or doors are open, security cameras that start recording if they sense motion, and an Amazon Echo.<br />
The home is one of three that double as residences and test labs. Each one, intentionally, is a different kind of space in a different location. Co-founder Brent Franks has a loft in San Francisco, while their third co-founder, Andy Fouse, has a home in a rural area near State College, Pennsylvania.<br />
<img alt="Brent Franks, co-founder of Abode, a startup that makes smart home products, is photographed at a home where his products are installed and tested in Saratoga, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. In Silicon Valley, the home next door may not be a simple residents. It could, instead, be a lab for tech equipment. Companies both large and small are renting or buying houses to test out their tech products in the real world. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" data-src="https://i1.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sjm-techhome-0205-01.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px" data-srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sjm-techhome-0205-01.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 620w,https://i1.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sjm -techhome-0205-01.jpg?w=210&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 210w" height="640" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sjm-techhome-0205-01.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px" width="534" />Brent Franks, co-founder of Abode, inside the Saratoga home rented by his partner Chris Carney that's used to test the gadgets from the smart home product maker. Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group <br />
Part of the reason Carney chose the Saratoga house was to be in an area where cellular coverage was spotty, Franks said. Abode's system uses a cellular connection as a fallback way to connect to the internet and to determine a house's location, and the company wanted to test how its system would handle the challenge, he said. Carney also wanted a larger house where he could install lots of different home automation products and connect them to Abode's main "gateway" gadget, Franks said.<br />
"We had to figure out how to adapt our service for urban versus non-urban environments," Franks said.<br />
Like Abode, KB Home's house is filled with smart home equipment. But in its case, the house, which is right next to a new development on Communications Hill, is more a showcase than a lab.<br />
Starting last fall, the home builder <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/18/kb-home-rolls-out-apple-compatible-smart-home-features/">began offering</a> to install home automation products that are compatible with the Home app on Apple's iPhone and iPads in the south-central neighborhood in San Jose and another one in Fremont. The model home it uses to demonstrate the products includes an automatic door lock, remotely controllable window shades and lights, a smart thermostat and a baby cam.<br />
At least in Plume's case, it appears that tech products make for good neighbors. People who live near the company's house had no idea it was being used as a test lab and had few complaints.<br />
"They don't make any noise at night," said George Smith, a primary care doctor who lives right across the street. "They're not a problem."<br />
Tech companies occupying houses that might otherwise be available for families could be courting controversy, given the sky-high rents and home prices in Silicon Valley. But they're likely having a minimal effect on the housing market, said Chris Trapani, founder and CEO of the Sereno Group, a Bay Area residential real estate firm. Trapani said he hadn't heard of other companies using houses as test labs and doesn't believe the practice is widespread.<br />
"Of all the reasons why inventory is low, that's probably no. 37," he said.<br />
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<b>Source:</b> This article was curated form the original written by Troy Wolverton for Business Insider and can be read here: <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/24/the-neighbors-next-door-may-surprise-you/">http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/24/the-neighbors-next-door-may-surprise-you/</a><br />
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The gloves are coming off in the Silicon Valley race to dominate the self-driving-tech world.<br />
Google's Waymo is now suing Uber and its recent acquisition, Otto, accusing it of stealing technology secrets.<br />
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As Business Insider's Alexei Oreskovic and Danielle Muoio <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-self-driving-car-company-waymo-sues-uber-for-stealing-technology-2017-2">reported on Thursday</a>:<br />
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"At the center of the suit is Anthony Levandowski, one of the original members of the team that worked on Google's self-driving-car project. In January 2016, Levandowski left Google after nine years to found Otto, a startup focused on autonomous trucks. Six months later, Uber acquired Otto in a deal valued at $680 million. Waymo alleges that Levandowski 'downloaded over 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo's various hardware systems, including designs of Waymo's LiDAR and circuit board' six weeks before resigning from Google."</div>
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This lawsuit follows one filed by Tesla for similar reasons. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sues-sterling-anderson-chris-urmson-data-breach-recruiting-violations-2017-1">Tesla recently sued</a> the former head of Google's car project, Chris Urmson, and Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla's Autopilot program from 2015 to 2016, accusing them of stealing the electric-car maker's intellectual property in pursuit of a new venture, Aurora Innovation.<br />
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In that lawsuit, there was this interesting language:<br />
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"The Autopilot features that are built into every Tesla vehicle, and continually updated through free over-the-air updates, are widely regarded as the most advanced, safest, and most reliable technology in the autonomous area. In their zeal to play catch-up, traditional automakers have created a get-rich-quick environment. Small teams of programmers with little more than demoware have been bought for as much as a billion dollars. Cruise Automation, a 40-person firm, was purchased by General Motors in July 2016 for nearly $1 billion. In August 2016, Uber acquired Otto, another self-driving startup that had been founded only seven months earlier, in a deal worth more than $680 million.</div>
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"Anderson and his business partners ... decided to take a run at a similar fortune."</div>
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Compared with the ascent of the electric car roughly a decade ago, the stakes for autonomous technology seem much higher. There were some legal skirmishes back then, particularly when it came to Elon Musk, now Tesla's CEO, and one of the company's founders, Martin Eberhard.<br />
But most of the electric-vehicle startups from back then either folded or went bankrupt, leaving Tesla more or less alone in the space. The big automakers created some electric vehicles, such as Nissan's Leaf, but their sales have been disappointing. In fact, to stoke the market, Tesla open-sourced its electric-vehicle patents in 2014.<br />
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<img alt="Tesla autopilot" data-mce-source="Tesla" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/56a77985dd08958d158b45d8-2400/screen%20shot%202016-01-26%20at%2080739%20am.png" height="358" width="640" />Tesla Autopilot in action.Tesla<br />
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Tesla's battery and drivetrain technologies are distinctive — thousands of lithium-ion cells wired together in a rather monolithic design — but electric vehicles are hardly a huge innovation. They've been around, in one form or another, for a century.<br />
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Self-driving tech is a different story, and no one is interested in sharing.<br />
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Taken together, the Waymo and Tesla lawsuits strongly indicate that there's a self-driving-tech bubble developing in Silicon Valley. With less than a year of work, some engineers can sell out for hundreds of millions or a cool billion.<br />
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That's the going rate for self-driving tech that works, according to Ford's chief technical officer, Raj Nair. Ford just <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-invests-1-billion-argo-ai-for-self-driving-cars-2017-2">took a majority stake</a>, to the tune of $1 billion, in Argo AI, a machine-learning startup, to advance its own ambitious self-driving-tech efforts. The company says that $1 billion is about what it costs to develop so-called Level 4 autonomy, which is one stage shy of the vehicle completely driving itself, with no human input.<br />
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Entrepreneurs can smell money and quick, lucrative exits. The traditional carmakers are flush with cash after several years of booming US sales, and they don't want to be left behind in the race to bring self-driving cars to market. (They were far more low-key when it came to electric cars, effectively letting Tesla assume all the early risk.)<br />
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And a new arrival like Uber is riding high on its nosebleed valuation of more than $60 billion. Not moving into self-driving tech now would be catastrophic if the market were to shift hard in that direction over the next decade and ride-hailing services were saddled with a massive commitment to high-cost human drivers — it would have to pay up to license autonomous technologies, which is an integral part of Ford's business plan.<br />
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In other words, fear has broken out. That, rather than a meaningful market for self-driving vehicles, is swelling the bubble. Now that the lawyers have entered the picture, that bubble could be close to popping.<br />
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As autonomous vehicles have ascended and surpassed electric cars as the futuristic preoccupation of choice in the tech industry, I have the ominous feeling that I've seen this movie before. While there are impressive self-driving-tech experiments being conducted across the US, the technology is far from being commercialized.<br />
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The ambition is present, but it was also there when we saw numerous electric-car startups rise and fall after the financial crisis. As it turned out, while people wanted Teslas, they didn't want electric cars — sales today amount to only about 1% of the global market.<br />
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Philadelphia's <a href="http://www.ihhe.org/">Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship</a>, founded by <a href="https://twitter.com/215tayyib">Tayyib Smith</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/215Meegan">Meegan Denenberg</a> of <a href="http://smallteambigthings.co/">Little Giant Creative</a>, "uses the ethos of Hip-Hop to connect nontraditional, ambitious young entrepreneurs with the resources, knowledge, and contacts needed to take their ideas from concept to reality." The 9-month program funded by the <a href="http://knightcities.org/">Knight Cities</a> grant and inspired by hip-hop's creative economy leverages the capital of the cultural zeitgeist during weekend sessions that groom students to build and ultimately pitch their ventures to investors.<br />
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These entrepreneurs are the rising standard bearers working outside the spotlight, where they create solutions for social justice, civic engagement and product development with the potential to carry them beyond their respective cities and expectations. The byproduct of the founders' combined experience in marketing and entertainment, the institute itself is similarly capable of impacting lives and changing how people view opportunities for mobility and business incubation within hip hop culture. So how did we get here and what's the real story behind the IHHE? Tayyib and Meegan explain how they created the space to craft your hustle.<br />
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Tayyib Smith: I don't consider myself to be successful. I think I've done a couple of things that have worked. I have a different scale in terms of success. I think I've been continually trying to redefine what that is. In terms of my path, I had always been passionate about music. I worked first as a street promoter and eventually became a club promoter. I moved to Colorado for a bit. I worked at the <a href="http://www.foxtheatre.com/">Fox Theatre</a> and <a href="http://redrocksonline.com/">Red Rocks</a>. Promoting parties and producing my own events. About 1996, I came back to Philly where I was waiting tables and still trying to do my own promotion thing. I got hooked up with King Britt, who had always encouraged me to follow whatever it is I was trying to do creatively. He introduced me to Vikter Duplaix and James Poyser. I ended up working for their production company, <a href="https://mycitypaper.com/articles/101900/cs.music.axis.shtml">Axis Music Group</a>, for abou t 4 or 5 years. Halfway through that period I started to do administrative work, A&R'ing and acting as the U.S. legal manager for <a href="https://www.bbemusic.com/">BBE Music</a> — for Peter Adarkwah out of London. That was a really interesting time in Philly because he was doing the <a href="http://www.the-beat-generation.com/">Beat Generation</a> stuff — the series of records from people like Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Jazzy Jeff…J Dilla's <a href="https://boilerroom.tv/podcasts/welcome-2-detroit-dissected/">Welcome 2 Detroit</a>. Somewhere around 2004 or 2005, while I was still doing that, I started managing a band called The Nouveau Riche that had Khari Mateen, Dice Raw and Nikki Jean in it. Between that and how difficult the business was becoming, I was getting disillusioned with music. I had always, on the side even at Axis and BBE, acted as a marketer doing brand collaborations and partnerships. These were the early <a href="http://adage.com/article/madisonvine-ne%20%20%20ws/scion-rolls-branded-film/115238/">Scion</a> years. I made some good relationships and got to book a lot of really cool people through that. We did events for <a href="https://triplefivesoul.ca/">Triple Five Soul</a> and a couple of other brands. Then when I was done with music and trying to figure out what path I wanted to take, a former colleague had approached me with the idea of starting <a href="http://215mag.com/">Two.One.Five Magazine</a>. Little Giant Creative was always the parent company of the publication. The print publication was our focus for three years.<br />
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Meegan Denenberg: I lived and worked in New York before returning to Philly, where I was Director of Marketing For Philly Car Share. I was planning their 5-year anniversary. We were doing this big b-boy activation and Tayyib was recommended when we were looking for someone who might be able to help pull this off. The event happened and was very successful, but I subsequently left PCS to do some consulting. When I started coming to him to talk about things that were happening, I think he and his then business partner had come to a point where they realized that the magazine wasn't sustainable and they needed to have some kind of business model that would generate income. At that point they had been approached by <a href="https://www.ruvilla.com/">VILLA</a> for a lookbook and a fashion show. I don't know that anyone had had prior experience in that realm and since that had been my whole career, I started putting together documents. When I came on board, it was pretty much at a p oint when the situation was do or die. The magazine really wasn't sustaining itself and we needed to pay staff. We realized that marketing was the thing that would provide some income. I took a leadership role with the company and about a year later Heineken approached us. We developed an event series for <a href="http://smallteambigthings.co/heineken-green-room/">Heineken Green Room</a>. Our subsequent dealings with bigger clients like that has had a lot to do with having an agency background. After Heineken, we added <a href="http://vitaminwater.com/">Vitamin Water</a> and a host of others. At the end we had to make the decision that a paper magazine just wasn't financially viable. We talked to experts in the field that told us we were not going to have room to grow in that format. Especially if you want to be recognized as a national brand, a magazine isn't the way to go. So I started focusing on the growth of the company itself. We parted ways with Tayyib's old partner a nd for the next 3 years we worked on the <a href="https://twitter.com/philly360?lang=en">Philly 360</a> initiative with <a href="http://www.visitphilly.com/">Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation</a>. We did the Vitamin Water Uncapped live series. We added <a href="http://www.drexel.edu/">Drexel</a> to our roster of clients. We expanded Heineken Green Room to D.C. and then to New York.<br />
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<b>OKP: How have you evolved as an entrepreneur since the beginning of your career?</b><br />
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TS: I looked at my time at Axis Music Group as kind of like college. And my time developing Two.One.Five and Little Giant at different phases of my career, was like graduate school. I would say the magazine was graduate school and the current phase is probably when I've learned the most and become a little more astute about partnerships, relationships, and personal brands. The things we invest in. How I devote my time. Now I'm a little more thoughtful and more selective about what I get involved in. Before I was a lot more accessible and just down for the cause. If I had a friend who wanted to be a rapper? Someone wanted to be a producer? I was kind of that person in the scene that would invest in you. Now, because we have an overhead and salaries and employees — because I have business partners that I'm responsible to, I have to be much more prudent in the decisions I make.<br />
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... Source: This article was curated, in part, from the original written by KARASLAMB. The rest of the interview can be read here: <a href="http://www.okayplayer.com/news/institute-of-hip-hop-entrepreneurship-interview.html">http://www.okayplayer.com/news/institute-of-hip-hop-entrepreneurship-interview.html</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-22362341663294417832017-02-24T09:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T09:00:18.497-08:00Boulder software firm attracts $6.7 million from Silicon Valley investors - The Denver PostSoftware developed in Boulder that lets users analyze data without knowing a lick of code has attracted funding from Silicon Valley venture capitalists.<br />
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SlamData, which launched its open-source product in 2014, said Wednesday that it raised $6.7 million in a Series A round led by Shasta Ventures, a Menlo Park firm <a href="https://www.strictlyvc.com/2014/01/13/nest-investor-shasta-ventures-persistence-pays/">noted for being an early investor in connected-thermostat Nest Labs</a>. Its investment in SlamData is the firm's first in Colorado in more than 10 years.<br />
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"SlamData is an enterprise game changer. They are the first company that lets you write once to any kind of data source — transforming how today's businesses can quickly explore, analyze and derive value from their ever-increasing data sources," Nitin Chopra, principal at Shasta Ventures, said in a statement.<br />
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The software offers one program for users to explore and analyze unstructured data sources from NoSQL, Hadoop and cloud APIs. Previously, programmers had to build their own software to analyze data from multiple sources. <br />
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The new funding, which brings the company's total to $10.3 million raised since 2015, will be used to double staff to 30 employees, said Jeff Carr, SlamData's co-founder and CEO. One recent hire is Sreeni Iyer, previously at retail-intelligence firm Quad Analytix. Iyer, who is senior vice president of engineering, will be based in Silicon Valley and head up the new office there. SlamData also has an office in the United Kingdom.<br />
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<b>Source:</b> This article was curated from the original written by <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/author/tamara-chuang/">TAMARA CHUANG</a> for the Denver Post <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/22/boulder-software-firm-slamdata-investment/">http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/22/boulder-software-firm-slamdata-investment/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-14163278245446115772017-02-24T07:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T07:00:04.452-08:003D Printing Model Yachts - NauticExpo e-MagazineAmong its many applications, 3D printing has been used recently to create accurate scale models of boats and yachts. <a href="http://www.crptechnology.com/" target="_blank">CRP Technology</a>, an Italian 3D printing company, masters this new technology using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering" target="_blank">selective laser sintering</a> technique with <a href="http://www.windform.com/" target="_blank">Windform composite materials</a>. NauticExpo e-mag talked to Franco Cevolini, Technical Director of CRP Technology.<br />
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Franco Cevolini: The <a href="http://www.livreayacht.com/">Livrea 26</a> was designed by Daniele Cevola and Francesco Belvisi in collaboration with Yam Marine Technology. They wanted an accurate model of the sailboat combining classic features with high-performance materials. Our team was fascinated with the idea of creating a scale model that would showcase their approach. Three-dimensional printing was THE process of choice. The result was a 1:14 scale model of the Livrea 26. The designers' aim was to bring about a radical change in the way they design and build watercraft. We might consider this new philosophy as Boat Building 2.0, since 3D printing and the latest generation materials offer yacht designers the potential to unleash their imaginations.</div>
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Franco Cevolini: For 3D printing the Livrea 26 model, we decided to use <a href="http://www.windform.com/windform-xt-2-0.html">Windform XT 2.0</a>, a carbon-filled polyamide material which ensures maximum mechanical performance. Windform XT 2.0 is a high-quality laser sintering material. It is characterized by great stiffness, excellent strength and reduced weight.</div>
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Veronica Negrelli: Windform XT 2.0 evolved out of the groundbreaking high-performance Windform XT, a carbon fiber-reinforced composite particularly suitable for demanding applications such as the motorsports, aerospace and unmanned aerial vehicle sectors. We use selective laser sintering. Unlike other methods of 3D printing, products require very little additional tooling—they don't usually have to be sanded or otherwise finished once they come out of the machine.</div>
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Franco Cevolini: Three-dimensional printing offers the possibility to build extremely complex or tiny parts that are difficult or impossible to tool. That's why it's particularly suited for creating boat parts, prototypes or scale models. Thanks to our knowledge, materials and machines, we can create previously impossible geometries with great dimensional precision. In the case of the Livrea 26, the interior parts were printed in sections and then assembled to achieve the required accuracy. The printing process can include internal details, making it the ideal choice for small production runs of items that are usually handcrafted or made with standard technologies.</div>
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Another firm which specialized in scale model yachts is <a href="http://www.deethree.co.uk/">DeeThree</a>, an offshoot of <a href="https://www.northampton.ac.uk/">Northampton University</a> in the UK. They started with a 62-foot yacht by the renowned Princess yard. It was a challenge as no CAD data were available.<br />
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"The project required techniques from SLS, stereolithography and CNC milling and laser cutting to complete it start-to-finish in just 20 days," says Mitchell. But the project didn't end with the model. Dee Three also developed an augmented reality and a virtual reality application to allow the sales team to display the V62 scale model anywhere.<br />
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Unicorn companies, Silicon Slopes, and high-tech mecca — all phrases that have investors turning their heads in recent years to look at Utah's entrepreneur potential.<br />
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Utah was ranked No. 1 in innovation and entrepreneurship and No. 2 in high-tech performance by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this year, and it has also recently landed the number one spot on <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/12/americas-top-states-for-business-2016-the-list-and-ranking.html" target="_blank">CNBC's America's Top States for Business</a>.<br />
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This attention may seem unexpected, but the Beehive State has a history with successful tech companies such as WordPerfect, a word processing application created in 1979 by two BYU alumni: graduate student Bruce Bastian and computer science professor Alan Ashton.<br />
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Utah is now home to several "unicorn" companies, or companies that are worth $1 billion on paper. Businesses such as Domo, Vivint Smart Homes, Qualtrics, Pluralsight and InsideSales, started in the 1990s and have become notable unicorn companies.<br />
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In the 2000s, more companies headquartered in Utah cropped up, creating a series of tech companies dotting the Wasatch range between Davis and Utah counties. The corridor earned the moniker Silicon Slopes, a reference to its startup culture that is similar to that of California's Silicon Valley.<br />
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Today, there are 4,388 technology companies in Utah that employ more than 53,000 Utahns. According to <a href="http://siliconslopes.com/" target="_blank">siliconslopes.com</a>, these companies employ 8.6 percent of the state's workforce and provide 14.3 percent of Utah's payroll.<br />
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Several factors have scored Utah the number one spot in tech employment growth in the western region. Utah stands at a 6.69 percent combined tax rate. This is a welcoming statistic for start-ups who want a financially promising start.<br />
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Siliconslopes.com also stated that cheap real estate might be a deciding factor for companies who choose to plant their feet on Utah soil. For example, a $400,000 home in Utah can buy 2,898 square feet compared to 518 square feet in San Francisco.<br />
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Aside from its financially-friendly characteristics, Utah is also home to prestigious universities that produce a surplus of engineering and technology talent — including BYU.<br />
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Overall, Utah has a strong emphasis on education, and Gov. Gary Herbert has put particular importance on the tech-friendly agenda in recent years.<br />
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Lunt said other states have strong talent, too, but that Utah has fostered a positive environment for entrepreneurs and businesses by providing incubation centers where entrepreneurs can work together and reduce their start-up costs.<br />
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Manager at The Startup Building Anders Taylor said the physical closeness provided in one space is a great way for entrepreneurs to network with other business entities and gain valuable collaboration.<br />
Taylor also said a newer thought process in the start-up world, called the Lean Start-up model, contributes to the success of some entrepreneurs who visit The Startup Building.<br />
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"Instead of going out to find money to fund your idea, you spend time validating that your idea is a good one by doing customer interviews, researching the market, knowing who your competitors are . . . it's an academic way to making sure that you will have the best chance of success," Taylor said.<br />
That's not always an easy thing to do. For many aspiring entrepreneurs, the hardest part of getting started is finding the time, Taylor said.<br />
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In general, Taylor explained a supportive start-up community is crucial for beginning businesses, and Utah has proven to be a good home for growth in both technology and the entrepreneurship now, and hopefully in the years to come.<br />
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<b>Source:</b> This article was curated from the original written by <a href="http://universe.byu.edu/author/lalaurenhan/">Lauren Hanson</a> and can be read here: <a href="http://universe.byu.edu/2017/02/22/utah-the-new-breeding-ground-for-technology-entrepreneurship/">http://universe.byu.edu/2017/02/22/utah-the-new-breeding-ground-for-technology-entrepreneurship/</a><br />
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Silicon Valley is an industry whose foundation was built, byte by byte, with youthful innovation.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Look no further than some of tech's greatest minds for proof. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were 21 and 25&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight:400;">when they co-founded Apple (</span><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/?p=AAPL"><span style="font-weight:400;">AAPL</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">).&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight:400;">Sergey Brin and Larry Page were twenty-something Stanford University graduate students when they built the search engine that became Google (</span><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG?p=GOOG"><span style="font-weight:400;">GOOG</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><a href="ht tps://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL?p=GOOGL"><span style="font-weight:400;">GOOGL</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">) in the <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/09/27/google-garage-anniversary/#bmOS3QS91aqq" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">garage</a> of a home in Menlo Park, Calif. &nbsp;</span>" data-reactid="12" type="text">
Look no further than some of tech's greatest minds for proof. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were 21 and 25 when they co-founded Apple (<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/?p=AAPL">AAPL</a>). Sergey Brin and Larry Page were twenty-something Stanford University graduate students when they built the search engine that became Google (<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG?p=GOOG">GOOG</a>, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL?p=GOOGL">GOOGL</a>) in the <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/09/27/google-garage-anniversary/#bmOS3QS91aqq" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">garage</a> of a home in Menlo Park, Calif. </div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Look no further than some of tech's greatest minds for proof. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were 21 and 25&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight:400;">when they co-founded Apple (</span><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/?p=AAPL"><span style="font-weight:400;">AAPL</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">).&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight:400;">Sergey Brin and Larry Page were twenty-something Stanford University graduate students when they built the search engine that became Google (</span><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG?p=GOOG"><span style="font-weight:400;">GOOG</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><a href="ht tps://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL?p=GOOGL"><span style="font-weight:400;">GOOGL</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">) in the <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/09/27/google-garage-anniversary/#bmOS3QS91aqq" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">garage</a> of a home in Menlo Park, Calif. &nbsp;</span>" data-reactid="12" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">And Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dropped out of</a></span><span style="font-weight:400;">&nbsp;Harvard University to pursue and develop Facebook (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB">FB</a>) — a move Peter Thiel likely appreciates, given the billionaire tech investor offers the </span><a href="http://thielfellowship.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thiel Fellowship</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, a two-year program that rewards select fellows who are 22 or younger with cash to drop out of (or take a leave of absence from) college to pursue and develop tech ideas.</span>" data-reactid="13" type="text">
And Mark Zuckerberg <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dropped out of</a> Harvard University to pursue and develop Facebook (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB">FB</a>) — a move Peter Thiel likely appreciates, given the billionaire tech investor offers the <a href="http://thielfellowship.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Thiel Fellowship</a>, a two-year program that rewards select fellows who are 22 or younger with cash to drop out of (or take a leave of absence from) college to pursue and develop tech ideas.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">And Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dropped out of</a></span><span style="font-weight:400;">&nbsp;Harvard University to pursue and develop Facebook (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB">FB</a>) — a move Peter Thiel likely appreciates, given the billionaire tech investor offers the </span><a href="http://thielfellowship.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thiel Fellowship</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, a two-year program that rewards select fellows who are 22 or younger with cash to drop out of (or take a leave of absence from) college to pursue and develop tech ideas.</span>" data-reactid="13" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">And Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dropped out of</a></span><span style="font-weight:400;">&nbsp;Harvard University to pursue and develop Facebook (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB">FB</a>) — a move Peter Thiel likely appreciates, given the billionaire tech investor offers the </span><a href="http://thielfellowship.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thiel Fellowship</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, a two-year program that rewards select fellows who are 22 or younger with cash to drop out of (or take a leave of absence from) college to pursue and develop tech ideas.</span>" data-reactid="13" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">And Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/11/1/zuckerberg-to-leave-harvard-indefinitely-mark/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dropped out of</a></span><span style="font-weight:400;">&nbsp;Harvard University to pursue and develop Facebook (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB">FB</a>) — a move Peter Thiel likely appreciates, given the billionaire tech investor offers the </span><a href="http://thielfellowship.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thiel Fellowship</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, a two-year program that rewards select fellows who are 22 or younger with cash to drop out of (or take a leave of absence from) college to pursue and develop tech ideas.</span>" data-reactid="13" type="text">
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While tech often reveres youth, the opposite can be true. Movies like "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Intern</a>" and "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Internship</a>" mock the notion of ageism in tech, but for some people in the real world, being over 40 (or even 30) can be a real liability. That's may be because of a fast-paced work environment that can shift on a dime, or because older people are frequently associated with being familiar with older technologies. And while it's illegal to <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">discriminate against workers over 40</a>, suc h cases can ultimately be <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/your-money/trying-to-make-a-case-for-age-discrimination.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">difficult to prove</a>.</div>
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"This is not an area where anyone values past experiences much, and there is logic to that: things change too fast," says Steve, a 43-year-old software engineer at a consumer-focused startup in San Francisco, who asked that we not use his real name out of concern for his privacy.</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">The numbers show that tech is an unusually young industry. The median age for the typical US worker is 42, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, but in tech, workers are frequently a decade younger (or more). To wit, data compiled from salary firm PayScale, which compared data in 2016 from<a href="http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/top-tech-companies-compared" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> 18 different tech employers</a>,&nbsp;revealed the median age of workers at companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and SpaceX is 29, with only three companies — IBM (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/?p=IBM">IBM</a>), Oracle (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL?p=ORCL">ORCL</a>) and HP (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPQ/?p=HPQ">HPQ</a>) — reporting a median employee age over 33.</span>" data-reactid="22" type="text">
<a data-reactid="16" href="http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/8dd34eb714ae693b906da37fce1cd753" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The numbers show that tech is an unusually young industry. The median age for the typical US worker is 42, </a><a href="https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, but in tech, workers are frequently a decade younger (or more). To wit, data compiled from salary firm PayScale, which compared data in 2016 from <a href="http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/top-tech-companies-compared" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">18 different tech employers</a>, revealed the median age of workers at companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and SpaceX is 29, with only three companies — IBM (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/?p=IBM">IBM</a>), Oracle (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL?p=ORCL">ORCL</a>) and HP (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPQ/?p=HPQ">HPQ</a>) — reporting a median employee age over 33.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">The numbers show that tech is an unusually young industry. The median age for the typical US worker is 42, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, but in tech, workers are frequently a decade younger (or more). To wit, data compiled from salary firm PayScale, which compared data in 2016 from<a href="http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/top-tech-companies-compared" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> 18 different tech employers</a>,&nbsp;revealed the median age of workers at companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn and SpaceX is 29, with only three companies — IBM (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/?p=IBM">IBM</a>), Oracle (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL?p=ORCL">ORCL</a>) and HP (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPQ/?p=HPQ">HPQ</a>) — reporting a median employee age over 33.</span>" data-reactid="22" type="text">
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For "older" employees who do land tech gigs, youthful workplaces can provide social challenges. In an attempt to blend into his employer's work culture, where many of his colleagues are in their 20s, Steve tries to look and dress younger, dying his hair to cover up gray and slathering on a slew of anti-aging skin products — "anything with <a href="http://www.oprah.com/style/retinoid-skin-creams-why-you-should-use-a-retinoid" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">retinol</a>," he explains — to look more youthful. He even stays on top of the latest trends in entertainment so he can chat about movies and music with his millennial colleagues over lunch or beers. </div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">The data supports Steve's concerns about fitting in. According to a <a href="https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">tech salaries&nbsp;report </a>released this month&nbsp;from H</span><span style="font-weight:400;">ired</span><span style="font-weight:400;">, a San Francisco-based tech worker recruiting firm, candidates seeking tech jobs between the ages of 25 and 30 receive the highest number of average job offers.<span style="color:#ff6600;">&nbsp;</span></span>" data-reactid="24" type="text">
The data supports Steve's concerns about fitting in. According to a <a href="https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">tech salaries report</a> released this mo nth from Hired, a San Francisco-based tech worker recruiting firm, candidates seeking tech jobs between the ages of 25 and 30 receive the highest number of average job offers. </div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">The data supports Steve's concerns about fitting in. According to a <a href="https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">tech salaries&nbsp;report </a>released this month&nbsp;from H</span><span style="font-weight:400;">ired</span><span style="font-weight:400;">, a San Francisco-based tech worker recruiting firm, candidates seeking tech jobs between the ages of 25 and 30 receive the highest number of average job offers.<span style="color:#ff6600;">&nbsp;</span></span>" data-reactid="24" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Once candidates pass the age of 45, the average tech worker salary and average number of job offers starts going downhill. Tech companies on average offer $132,000 to candidates between the ages of 50 and 60, comparable to what employers offer candidates at least 10 years </span><em><span style="font-weight:400;">junior</span></em><span style="font-weight:400;"><em>,</em> and who presumably, have at least 10 years less of work experience.</span>" data-reactid="25" type="text">
Once candidates pass the age of 45, the average tech worker salary and average number of job offers starts going downhill. Tech companies on average offer $132,000 to candidates between the ages of 50 and 60, comparable to what employers offer candidates at least 10 years junior, and who presumably, have at least 10 years less of work experience.</div>
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"There are a variety of factors that could contribute to this trend, but we see this as an example of unconscious biases hurting the hiring process," Hired data scientist Jessica Kirkpatrick, who authored the report, told Y ahoo Finance. "Some hiring managers may not realize that they naturally prefer younger candidates for culture fit reasons, but their bias during the interview process can have a lasting impact. Different ages bring new experiences and ways of thinking to the table and should be considered a standard part of any company's commitment to diversity. " </div>
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Kirkpatrick based her "ageism"-related findings on salary data gathered from over 280,000 interview requests and jobs offers over the last 12 months from over 45,000 job seekers in 16 cities, including San Francisco and New York. </div>
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<b>The youthful tech culture is a real concern for tech workers like Anne, a 38-year-old project manager at a San Francisco startup who also declined to have her real name used for privacy reasons. Having worked at several tech companies over the last 10 years, Anne is already considering a career change. Her reasoning, put simply: she feels like she's "aging" out of the industry already.</b></blockquote>
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The startup she currently works at does not offer what she considers family-friendly policies. For example, her employer offers just six weeks of paid maternity leave on top of two months of unpaid leave, which the company can currently get away with given the majority of Anne's colleagues are in their 20s and likely less focused on having families. </div>
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Some tech companies, to be fair, are making efforts to provide better benefits that might appeal to workers over the age of 30. Facebook, for example, has made significant strides thanks to Zuckerberg himself, who famously took <a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/270088" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">two months</a> of paternity leave in late 2016 and early 2017 to spend time with newborn daughter Max. The chief executive's move spurred Facebook to offer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lori/posts/10101025576188894" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">four months</a> of "paid baby leave" to all Facebook employees, regardless of gender or location.</div>
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That may be little comfort to middle-aged tech workers who can't snag a job at more inclusive businesses, though.</div>
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David, a 40-year-old unemployed user experience designer, has interviewed at over a dozen San Francisco startups for jobs over the last two months, but hasn't received an offer yet. He attributes part of the challenge to simply looking significantly older than the 20-something founders and CEOs who interview him.</div>
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<b>Source:</b> This article was curated from the original which was written by JP Mangalindan and can be read here: <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-experience-can-hurt-tech-workers-in-silicon-valley-150250224.html">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-experience-can-hurt-tech-workers-in-silicon-valley-150250224.html</a></div>
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"I detected strong jealousy, however, about Facebook's ability to hire the best people in the valley," Cramer said.<br />
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There also seemed to be universal love for <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="19004" data-inline-quote-symbol="GOOGL" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/GOOGL" target="_self">Alphabet</a>. Most tech executives admire its ability to hone search, its superior advertising model and impressive ancillary product.<br />
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For instance, Alphabet put down thousands of miles of fiber and opened data centers for companies to tap into as an alternative to Amazon. Given that many companies live in fear of Amazon, this fiber has now become a hidden source of lucrative traffic, Cramer said, including the $400 million a year that Snap will pay to use their cloud, not arch-rival Amazon's system.<br />
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"Alphabet barely gets any respect for this business. The negative research on the company barely mentions this treasure trove of payback, and I think the story is still in its early innings," Cramer said.<br />
Better yet, Alphabet's autonomous driving business, called Waymo, could dominate the business in the same way that Microsoft used to dominate software. Yet, it seemed to Cramer that Waymo isn't even factored into the estimates for Alphabet.<br />
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Both <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="21400" data-inline-quote-symbol="INTC" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/INTC" target="_self">Intel</a> and <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="42624" data-inline-quote-symbol="CSCO" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/CSCO" target="_self">Cisco Systems</a> gained Cramer's attention, too. He realized that Intel is a much bigger competitor to <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="27095" data-inline-quote-symbol="NVDA" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/NVDA" target="_self">Nvidia</a> than initially thought. Cisco showed its stripes as the most transformed company in the tech industry, too. It is moving quickly to recurring revenue via subscription model for Wi-Fi, cybersecurity and through its AppDynamics acquisition.<br />
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Sadly, Cramer heard nothing about <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="145284" data-inline-quote-symbol="TWTR" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/TWTR" target="_self">Twitter</a>, even after his interview with COO Anthony Noto. There seemed to be a large belief that either the board isn't engaged, or it would force its part-time CEO <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/jack-dorsey/" target="_self">Jack Dorsey</a> to pick one company to run, either Twitter or <a class="inline_quotes" data-gdsid="157183" data-inline-quote-symbol="SQ" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/SQ" target="_self">Square</a>.<br />
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There just aren't enough hours in the day for him to do a good job of running both companies and too many users leaving the platform for Cramer to recommend the stock, unless it gets a takeover, which seemed unlikely. Plus, some members of the board don't even Tweet.<br />
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"Amazon, oddly, is the most worshipped of of the entire flock, incredibly ironic given it isn't even located there ," Cramer said.<br />
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<b>Source: </b>This article was curated from the original written by Abigail Stevenson and can be read here: <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/cramer-why-silicon-valley-is-cautioning-against-snap.html">http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/cramer-why-silicon-valley-is-cautioning-against-snap.html</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-50022135178647911492017-02-23T08:29:00.001-08:002017-02-23T08:29:35.853-08:00Boeing plan to use 3D printing to make satellites - 3D Printing IndustryChicago-headquartered aerospace manufacturers Boeing (LOD:BOE) has revealed they will utilize 3D printing to manufacture future satellites. In an effort to increase turnaround time and lower costs of production, Boeing will use additive manufacturing to create modular components. At the beginning of January 2017 the company also <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/oxford-performance-materials-creating-3d-printed-parts-boeing-spacecraft-102264/">enlisted Oxford Performance Materials to 3D print parts for their CST-100 Starliner spacecraft</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">To produce more than 10 satellites per year</span></b><br />
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Speaking to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-looks-to-build-satellites-more-quickly-with-fewer-workers-1487692416?mod=e2tw">Wall Street Journal</a>, Boeing Satellite Business Chief Paul Rusnock explained how the approach will maintain Boeing's competitiveness in this market. Boeing's current satellite manufacturing technique requires many workers and means the company is producing less than 10 satellites a year. Adopting additive manufacturing, the company will be able to increase productivity at a more competitive price.<br />
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3D printing also has many advantages in the production of satellites, as Polish company SatRevolution recently announced plans to manufacture the devices in this way. SatRevolution intend to create a satellite production facility in their home country to produce <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/satrevolution-building-new-satellite-plant-poland-partners-apworks-105853/">Poland's first ever satellite using 3D printing</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Światowid satellite designed by the Polish company. Image via SatRevolution.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">More competitive market</span></b><br />
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The global satellite market is becoming more saturated with a new-found accessibility. Standardization of satellite size has strengthened accessibility to space, leading to more companies producing the devices. This is something Sir Martin Sweeting, of Surrey Satellites Technology, touched upon last year when <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/4-enterprises-not-spacex-using-3d-printing-reach-space-96578/">speaking at the International Aeronautical Congress in Guadalajara</a>.<br />
The increase in companies approaching the satellite market has encouraged Boeing to adapt their manufacturing process. With 3D printing, the company will be able to automate part of the manufacturing process and accelerate the creation of custom parts.<br />
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Furthermore, the production of modular satellites reflects the dynamic aspect of the market. Boeing's customers have reportedly expressed a frequent desire to launch upgraded satellites with the latest technology. This means that the modular satellite's shorter life-spans will not pose an issue. Paul Rusnock also explained that 3D printed modular parts will reduce production errors, as they are "easier to put together".<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST) system, part of the Starliner spacecraft</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">with 3D printed parts from Oxford Performance Materials. Concept image via Boeing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Boundless space for 3D printing</b></span><br />
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3D printing opens up new possibilities for satellite technology, as we've seen with Italian company D-Orbit. The satellite system manufacturers plan to launch a <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/d-orbit-protecting-planet-3d-printing-96612/">low-earth orbit satellite that can fly back to earth</a> when it is no longer needed. This addresses the growing problem of space junk, which is a result of decommissioned satellites left to float in space.<br />
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It is possible that such satellites may even be launched from the UK within the next few years with the <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/plans-uks-first-spaceport-welcomed-reaction-engines-106274/">introduction of a spaceport by the year 2020</a>.<br />
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3D Printing Industry will be present at the <a href="https://additivemanufacturing.iqpc.co.uk/">Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace, Defence and Space conference</a> this week in London. The event will have representatives from companies like Boeing, NASA and Airbus, so stay tuned to <a href="https://twitter.com/3dprintindustry">our social media</a> and <a href="http://3dprintingindustry.com/contact-us/#newsletter">sign up to the newsletter</a> for updates.<br />
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<b>Source: </b>This article has been curated from the original written by Corey Clarke and can be read here: <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/boeing-plan-use-3d-printing-make-satellites-106340/">https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/boeing-plan-use-3d-printing-make-satellites-106340/</a><div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-38833345347600036702017-02-22T06:30:00.000-08:002017-02-22T06:30:18.684-08:00Welcome to Shark Tank U - Inside Higher EdOver the last decade or so, universities around the country have been tripping over one another to see who can slap the word "entrepreneurial" on the most things on their campuses the fastest.<br />
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Entrepreneurial studies curricula and majors, business incubators, entrepreneurial centers, on and on -- entrepreneurial efforts have sprung up faster than the "innovate and disrupt" start-ups scattered about Silicon Valley whom they seem to desperately want to imitate.<br />
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This "Silicon Valleyization" of the university can be seen in places like <a href="https://www.fsu.edu/indexTOFStory.html?lead.gift" target="_blank">Florida State University</a>, which recently received a record $100 million to open the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship, or at <a href="http://entrepreneurship.rice.edu/" target="_blank">Rice University</a>, which last year announced the formation of an "entrepreneurial initiative" to transform the university into an "entrepreneurial university." Other institutions -- such as <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/10/22/universities-and-colleges-back-students-instincts-for-startups/#743f2fa04079" target="_blank">Emerson College</a>, the <a href="http://www.hartford.edu/ec/" target="_blank">University of Hartford</a> and the <a href="https://www.uml.edu/Innovation-Entrepreneurship/" target="_blank">University of Massachusetts at Lowell</a> -- have also joined the entrepreneurial arms race with their own centers and curricula.<br />
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For advocates of the entrepreneurial university, such moves mark a more full alignment of higher education with the needs of the new economy. Universities are finally recognizing the central role that they now must play in spurring "endogenous growth" in the highly competitive global market, where innovation determines national, state and individual winners and losers. They are finally coming down from the ivory tower and lining up their curricula and research to meet that need. For critics, however, such developments represent yet another chapter in the capturing of the university by particular economic interests -- and a further loss of autonomy and intellectual integrity, as institutions mindlessly chase the latest fad and buzz meme.<br />
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While the entrepreneur as a particular type of economic actor in the market economy has been around for some time, entrepreneurialism as a full-blown social and cultural movement is much newer. If we situate entrepreneurialism as a historically distinct social phenomenon, or perhaps as a post-Bretton Woods economic model, it contains several assumptions about society, politics and markets that largely go unacknowledged in the frenzy to create the entrepreneurial society and the enterprising university to accompany it.<br />
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First is the profound shift from a more organized style of the market economy -- with large corporations, unionized labor, slow growth, steady-state capital and a welfare-oriented state -- to a more disorganized one composed of start-ups, flexible labor, erratic growth, impatient capital and a market-oriented state. In the newer, churning model of the market economy, the entrepreneur -- personified in cultural and political heroes like Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, rather than the corporate manager or professional -- becomes the central new cultural icon.<br />
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One of the things that this unceasing push for entrepreneurial innovation as a driving force of economic growth dismisses or ignores is the actual destructive part of creative disruption. Creative disruption seems fine as long as it is other people whose lives are disrupted rather than your own. This view is often callously unconcerned with the harm that can be generated by disruption for the sake of disruption or the mantra that all innovation is progress. Here, in the mold of the economist Joseph Schumpeter and the Harvard University management gurus Clayton Christensen and Michael Porter, all disruptions are ultimately positive and all innovations are advancements. The market will miraculously, fairly and brutally sort out any lumps in the end. What disrupters yearn for is an always roiling and never resting society generated by people in continuous struggling with one another to provide the next best thing and "strike it rich."<br />
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As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/meet-is-murder.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Virginia Heffernan</a> recently described it, such innovators compose a "sneakered overclass -- whose signature sport is to disrupt everything, from Ikea furniture to courtship." They embody the religiously inspired dream of heavenly redemption, the modernist desire of continuous progress and "lotto fever" rolled into one. It is unclear, however, how far such a model can actually extend. How much innovation and disruption does the world need? Or, more important, how much can it actually take?<br />
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Second, entrepreneurialism as an idealized economic model promotes a rather distinct type of asocial, social Darwinist, "go it alone" mentality where the single, self-interested individual is seen as solely responsible for his or her successes. Here, even when philanthropy happens, it is ultimately designed for self-interest, as with <a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/12/07/chan-zuckerberg-llc-are-no-tax-breaks-plus-no-accountability-good-for-the-public/" target="_blank">Mark Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative LLC</a>.<br />
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Even with the rhetoric of Google-style teamwork aside, the entrepreneurial model celebrates the ideal of the lone-wolf innovator who works hard, charts their own course and "defies the odds." It is the American mythology of rugged individualism recast for the jobless age of the precariat, forever-flexible labor and the post-welfare state.<br />
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In doing so, this new economic model passes off social inequality as just the normal and inevitable ebb and flow of winners and losers in a free-flowing economy that is in constant flux -- and one that people need to adapt to rather than try to change. If you work hard enough, innovate and adapt to the market, you are entitled to reap the rewards. Those who cling to the collective protection of unions or change movements, or even the left-behind world of tradition, are but mindless sheep who lack the imagination to think for themselves and adapt. If you fail in your endeavors, you need to readapt and reinnovate in order to make your way again.<br />
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As on the TV show Shark Tank, the swirling and hungry accumulated venture capital of those "who have already made it" is there waiting to provide for newbies with the right stuff. Surviving and prospering are strictly by your own fruition. Yet all this ignores not only the highly likelihood of failure in these start-ups (90 percent, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-startups-will-fail-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-10/#5677d25355e1" target="_blank">according to Forbes magazine</a>) but also the social costs of living in a world composed of a handful of wealthy winners and scores of poor losers chumming up the shark-tank economy.<br />
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Third, implicit in the romantic idealization of the entrepreneur is the neoliberal idea of a limited pro-business government. Rather than expecting government to level things out a bit through progressive taxation or some other modest modes of redistribution -- or through various social services such as public education -- the new economic model promotes a government that is entrepreneurial, too. This enterprising government doesn't protect people from the market as in the social democratic model but rather forces even more marketization onto them.<br />
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People must be coerced (or, in the more polite terms of behavioral economics, "nudged") by government to "have grit and determination," "manage their own retirements and health care," "have positive affect" and "be responsible." They must be calculating, self-interested and self-promotional, even if they don't want to be. Responsibility will, in the words of former British Prime Minster David Cameron, finally force people "to ask the right questions of themselves."<br />
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What all this means is not that entrepreneurialism is necessarily a bad thing when taken in moderation and seen within the light of a larger political economy. We can certainly acknowledge the important contributions of the loads of small businesses and innovations built on entrepreneurial principles. But an entire society or university based solely or largely on those principles is rather problematic and limiting.<br />
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Universities should be leery of aligning their curricula and research just to meet the needs of the entrepreneur. It is one thing for a higher education institution to recognize entrepreneurialism as one particular economic form but quite another to become an entrepreneurial university. Universities are -- or should be -- like the economy and society themselves: too multidimensional to remake themselves into any one particular cause of the moment.<br />
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<b>This post was curated from the original written by <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/users/steven-c-ward">Steven C. Ward</a> </b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">sourced here: <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/02/21/questionable-entrepreneurship-mania-college-campuses-essay">https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/02/21/questionable-entrepreneurship-mania-college-campuses-essay</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-23290283925491437502017-02-21T18:30:00.000-08:002017-02-21T18:30:17.200-08:00Dutch company 3D4Makers creates stronger 3D printing materials with pioneering air jet extrusion system - 3ders.org (blog)<br />
3D4Makers, a Netherlands-based developer of 3D printing materials, has devised a new way to extrude filament that does not require water. The company's multiple jet air cooling system can cool extruded 3D printing filament as effectively as water while reducing overall production time.<br />
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3D4Makers' Ardy Struijk with a prototype of the company's filament extruder</div>
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In the highly competitive 3D printing industry, you would expect the odds to be stacked against a father-and-son business attempting to produce no less than 10 kinds of 3D printing filament, all from a small production facility in the Dutch city of Haarlem and with a total staff of just five people. Surprisingly, 3D4Makers seems to be doing just fine: the company makes high-performance engineering filaments such as PEEK, as well as more standard 3D printing materials, and has even become the first manufacturer in the world to create a filament made from polycaprolactone (PCL), a biodegradable polyester with a low melting point that is used in various medical devices.<br />
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So just how is 3D4Makers managing to do all this? The secret, recently revealed by the Dutch 3D printing specialist, lies in its unique and innovative filament extrusion technique. Typically, filament producers use water to precisely cool lengths of newly extruded plastic to ensure an even shape and diameter. This is generally a very effective practice for creating a usable 3D printing material, but it has its drawbacks: all water absorbed by the plastic needs to be removed again, usually by baking it for several hours, or printing performance will be affected. Again, this is all well and good for producing good 3D printing filament, but with such fine margins for success in the industry, those hours of waiting for water to evaporate begin to add up.<br />
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PLLA test print with an Ultimaker 3D printer</div>
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3D4Makers was faced with a dilemma: how could it continue to produce such a wide range of 3D printing materials at its small production facility when production of each spool of filament took such a long time? Would it have to reduce its wide portfolio of products to remain competitive, thereby destroying one of its biggest selling points? No. Instead, the Dutch filament manufacturer did something radical: it changed the way it cooled its filament, by eliminating the water phase altogether. Its alternative? High-pressure air jets.<br />
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After two years of hard work developing a new production system, 3D4Makers eventually perfected a setup that uses multiple cooling air jets that replace water entirely. This means that plastic can be cooled down evenly and precisely, but without the need for hours of baking to remove absorbed water. This means that the small company can produce its wide range of 3D printing materials without losing precious time. Ardy Struijk, 3D4Makers' head of marketing and sales, commented that he was "proud of the team and [himself] for coming this far against all odds."<br />
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Printing with 3D4Makers' PEEK 3D printing filament</div>
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In addition to increasing production speed, 3D4Makers' air jet extrusion system has brought other advantages. For example, the company has reported better layer adhesion in materials produced with its new extrusion system, resulting in better and stronger 3D printed parts. The team also found that impact resistance was increased in their waterless filament when compared with standard 3D printing materials made by other companies. The system even allows 3D4Makers to produce 100% pure filaments with no additives.<br />
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<a href="https://www.3d4makers.com/" target="_blank">3D4Makers</a> was started by father and son team Jan-Peter and Jasper Wille. Its portfolio of 3D printing filaments includes ABS, ASA, PLA, PLLA, PCL, PET-G, Hemp, PEEK, PEI, and PPSU.<br />
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This post has been curated from the original written by Benedict at www.3ders.org here: <a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/20170221-dutch-company-3d4makers-creates-stronger-3d-printing-materials-with-pioneering-air-jet-extrusion-system.html" target="_blank">3D Printing Materials</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-8293600975317291122017-02-21T14:30:00.000-08:002017-02-21T14:30:10.587-08:00Here's Why the City Just Pumped $130K Into Local Entrepreneurship - Philadelphia magazineWhen Startup PHL <a href="http://www.phillymag.com/business/2016/11/02/call-for-ideas-philadelphia-poverty/">first announced</a> the fifth round of its "Call for Ideas" grant program, they made it clear that there's a major connection between entrepreneurship and some of the city's biggest ills. Entrepreneurship can be a pathway out of poverty and a tool that can address connected issues like homelessness, hunger, and struggling public schools.<br />
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Startup PHL's Call for Ideas is the city's way of tapping into local entrepreneurs to help them unleash and develop their ideas. And this time around, the program announced last week that it will award a total of $130,675 to six organizations. "Call for Ideas is one of many ways we are fostering a positive reciprocal relationship between the City and Philadelphia's entrepreneurs," said Archna Sahay, the city's director of entrepreneurial investment. <br />
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There are commonalities between all of the organizations: Most of the awardees work directly with Philadelphia's youth, a number of them address Philadelphia's immigrant population, and several deal with teaching program participants a new skill such as manufacturing or computer science.<br />
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"These programs will also serve a number of populations, including young people, small business owners and immigrants. I am eager to see the impact of our latest Call for Ideas grants and the programs they support," Mayor Kenney said in a statement.<br />
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Here are this round's awardees and what they'll use the grant money for, according to StartupPHL:<br />
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<li>Coded by Kids ($16,500) – Coded by Kids will use the Call for Ideas grant to support the development and piloting of a data science curriculum for students at two recreation centers in Philadelphia. The data science curriculum will use publicly available Open Data sets to teach students how to extract, analyze and present data.</li>
<li>Destined to Achieve Successful Heights, Inc. ($22,975) – DASH will partner with PSTV (the Education channel for The School District of Philadelphia) to help students produce, write and record their own original music with Grammy-nominated songwriters and producers while learning the real world economics of the music industry.</li>
<li>Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation ($17,200) – The Free Library will utilize the grant to expand business support to four neighborhood Library locations serving low-income communities. Each location will pilot integrated services including free classes, a core collection and seed funding.</li>
<li>The Hacktory ($24,000) – The Hacktory will host a summer hardware bootcamp for professionals in the region to learn a foundation of technical, fabrication and design skills through hands-on projects and experimentation.</li>
<li>SecondMuse ($25,000) – SecondMuse will use their funds to research and better understand the needs and resources available to Philadelphia's existing hardware startup and manufacturing communities. Based on the findings, SecondMuse plans to co-design an incubator for hardware.</li>
<li>Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians ($25,000) – The Welcoming Center plans to use its Call for Ideas grant to cultivate entrepreneurial leadership among first generation immigrant youth and provide assistance to immigrant-owned small businesses with technology.</li>
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This year's funding total represents the largest sum of investment ever from the Call for Ideas grant program. To date, 26 grants have been awarded.<br />
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This article was curated from the original written by <a href="http://www.phillymag.com/author/fcineas/">FABIOLA CINEAS</a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">source: <a href="http://www.phillymag.com/business/2017/02/21/startup-phl-ideas-awardees/">http://www.phillymag.com/business/2017/02/21/startup-phl-ideas-awardees/</a></span><br />
Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/FabiolaCineas">@fabiolacineas</a> on Twitter.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7076704139649455767.post-24161764228544531532017-02-21T12:21:00.000-08:002017-02-21T12:21:01.210-08:00Open Bionics awarded $1 million prize for their 3D printed prosthesis - 3D Printing IndustryBritish enterprise, <a href="https://www.openbionics.com/">Open Bionics</a> has won a million dollar award for their 3D printed bionic arm prosthesis. The team won the international category at the UAE Robotics for Good Awards in Dubai.<br />
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Open Bionics use 3D printers, such as the Ultimaker 3, and 3D scanning to create custom bespoke prosthesis for those in need. With 3D printing and associated technology they are able to provide a fast and cost-effective solution for amputees. The huge prize fund was given to the team as a reward for their impressive bionic arms and its exciting to think how they will use the money in the future.<br />
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Joel Gibbard from Open Bionics, said, "The money is going to be incredibly useful. It's going to hospital certifications and providing these limbs to young patients."<br />
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Open Bionics' fleet of Ultimaker 2 extended 3D printers. Photo via Open Bionics on Twitter.</div>
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3D printing and prosthesis go hand-in-hand, sometimes literally, as the technology opens the door to create custom parts to fit specific requirements. Here at 3D Printing Industry, we are long-time fans of Open Bionics for their admirable work with the technology. They <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-printing-prosthetics-pioneer-speaks-wired-next-gen-conference-98111/">showcased their bionic arms for children last year in London</a>. For that project they worked with Disney and Marvel to create arms that were reminiscent of a child's favorite characters.<br />
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There is, also, more recreational use of 3D printing with Japanese company <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/exos-combining-3d-printed-prosthesis-virtual-reality-104721/">Exiii creating arms to use for virtual reality</a>. Exiii are using additive manufacturing to create a product that enables the sense of virtual touch.<br />
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An Open Bionics superhero arm. Image via Open Bionics</div>
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The Bionics team are still at the early stages of releasing their arms to a wider audience. However, this award should provide them with a significant boost in their plans.<br />
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They posted this on their Facebook page celebrating their award, Team OB just won the Robotics for Good Award in Dubai. Over 1,600 technologies for good applied and after competing against the top 10 best assistive technologies the judges chose our bionic hands! Now we have the funding to push our hands through the final stages of medical testing and finally get them to everyone who needs one.<br />
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We look forward to seeing how they progress and congratulate them on this superb accomplishment.<br />
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<br /><i>This article has been curated from the original written Corey Clarke who has a keen interest in 3D printing and all tech-related news, as well as the wider impact of additive manufacturing.</i><div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>source:</b> <a href="https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/open-bionics-awarded-1-million-prize-3d-printed-prosthesis-106110/">https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/open-bionics-awarded-1-million-prize-3d-printed-prosthesis-106110/</a></span></div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Much like the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s — an industry implosion marked by high-profile flops such as online grocery delivery startup Webvan and pet supplies retailer Pets.com — skeptics pointed to less VC funding in 2016, stratospheric valuations including Uber's <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-loss-exceeds-800-million-in-third-quarter-on-1-7-billion-in-net-revenue" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">$69 billion</a>, the sales of once-pricey companies such as <a href="https://www.onekingslane.com/?&amp;Wt.srch=1&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=search&amp;utm_term=one%20king%27s%20lane|e&amp;utm_content=OKL_Trademark|googb|mkwid|sU6TtWaa6_dc|pcrid|106229383462&amp;utm_campaign=OKLN_BR_GO_A1xxx_WA_G_TEXT_OKLBRND_NA&a mp;loc_physical_ms=9031941&amp;gclid=CKnC66j-l9ICFQiSfgodPVsD5Q" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">One King's Lane</a>, and sky-high <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-rental-market-000000815.html">rental and real estate prices</a>. </span>" data-reactid="24" type="text">
Much like the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s — an industry implosion marked by high-profile flops such as online grocery delivery startup Webvan and pet supplies retailer Pets.com — skeptics pointed to less VC funding in 2016, stratospheric valuations including Uber's <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-loss-exceeds-800-million-in-third-quarter-on-1-7-billion-in-net-revenue" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">$69 billion</a>, the sales of once-pricey companies such as <a href="https://www.onekingslane.com/?&Wt.srch=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_term=one%20king%27s%2%20%20%200lane|e&utm_content=OKL_Trademark|googb|mkwid|sU6TtWaa6_dc|pcrid|106229383462&utm_campaign=OKLN_BR_GO_A1xxx_WA_G_TEXT_OKLBRND_NA&loc_physical_ms=9031941&gclid=CKnC66j-l9ICFQiSfgodPVsD5Q" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">One King's Lane</a>, and sky-high <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-rental-market-000000815.html">rental and real estate prices</a>.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Much like the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s — an industry implosion marked by high-profile flops such as online grocery delivery startup Webvan and pet supplies retailer Pets.com — skeptics pointed to less VC funding in 2016, stratospheric valuations including Uber's <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-loss-exceeds-800-million-in-third-quarter-on-1-7-billion-in-net-revenue" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">$69 billion</a>, the sales of once-pricey companies such as <a href="https://www.onekingslane.com/?&amp;Wt.srch=1&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=search&amp;utm_term=one%20king%27s%20lane|e&amp;utm_content=OKL_Trademark|googb|mkwid|sU6TtWaa6_dc|pcrid|106229383462&amp;utm_campaign=OKLN_BR_GO_A1xxx_WA_G_TEXT_OKLBRND_NA&a mp;loc_physical_ms=9031941&amp;gclid=CKnC66j-l9ICFQiSfgodPVsD5Q" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">One King's Lane</a>, and sky-high <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-rental-market-000000815.html">rental and real estate prices</a>. </span>" data-reactid="24" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">And contrary to tech insiders who largely remain bullish on the industry, some even saw smaller signs of a bubble in the </span><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-traffic-and-housing-woes/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">hours-long bumper-to-bumper traffic</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> on the US-101, a highway that meanders its way down the peninsula to tech-laden cities such as Menlo Park, San Jose and Mountain View.</span>" data-reactid="25" type="text">
And contrary to tech insiders who largely remain bullish on the industry, some even saw smaller signs of a bubble in the <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-traffic-and-housing-woes/" rel="nofollow noopen er" target="_blank">hours-long bumper-to-bumper traffic</a> on the US-101, a highway that meanders its way down the peninsula to tech-laden cities such as Menlo Park, San Jose and Mountain View.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">And contrary to tech insiders who largely remain bullish on the industry, some even saw smaller signs of a bubble in the </span><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-traffic-and-housing-woes/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">hours-long bumper-to-bumper traffic</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> on the US-101, a highway that meanders its way down the peninsula to tech-laden cities such as Menlo Park, San Jose and Mountain View.</span>" data-reactid="25" type="text">
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<div all="" and="" balloon="" bubbles="" burst="" capitalize="" class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" companies="" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">But after more than six years in Silicon Valley collectively, I'm convinced there isn't </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">one</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> big bubble these days, but rather a series of smaller " copycat="" data-reactid="26" derivatives="" droves="" frothiest="" gt="" latest="" lt="" managed="" of="" on="" poorly="" span="" swell="" taking="" tech="" that="" the="" them="" they="" to="" trend.="" trying="" type="text" until="" with="" within="">
But after more than six years in Silicon Valley collectively, I'm convinced there isn't one big bubble these days, but rather a series of smaller "bubbles" within tech that balloon and swell until they burst, taking with them the droves of copycat derivatives and poorly managed companies all trying to capitalize on the latest, frothiest trend.</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Ask just about any venture capitalist at this moment, and they'll tell you they're seeing a glut of artificial intelligence and machine learning startups flow their way angling for cash, employing increasingly complex algorithms across a wide range of industries. </span>" data-reactid="27" type="text">
Ask just about any venture capitalist at this moment, and they'll tell you they're seeing a glut of artificial intelligence and machine learning startups flow their way angling for cash, employing increasingly complex algorithms across a wide range of industries.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Ask just about any venture capitalist at this moment, and they'll tell you they're seeing a glut of artificial intelligence and machine learning startups flow their way angling for cash, employing increasingly complex algorithms across a wide range of industries. </span>" data-reactid="27" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">While some of these new companies&nbsp;may fulfill actual needs, there may simply be more AI startups than the world needs.</span>" data-reactid="28" type="text">
While some of these new companies may fulfill actual needs, there may simply be more AI startups than the world needs.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">While some of these new companies&nbsp;may fulfill actual needs, there may simply be more AI startups than the world needs.</span>" data-reactid="28" type="text">
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The pets.com sock puppet dog stars in a commercial for the company, Los Angeles, California, January 11, 2000. Photo by Bob Riha/Liaison/Getty Image<br />
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Of course, some AI startups are more promising than others. Andreessen Horowitz general partner <a href="https://a16z.com/author/vijay-pande/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vijay Pande</a> told Yahoo Finance he is particularly bullish on companies such as </span><a href="http://www.freenome.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">Freenome,</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> which the firm invested in last June. The Palo Alto-based startup uses machine learning to help detect different types of cancers from a blood test rather than from a tissue sample — a process that detects cancer long before more traditional methods can. Another startup Pande invested in, the health tech startup <a href="https://cardiogr.am/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cardiogram</a>, is promising because it makes sense of and analyzes large amounts of user data to provide actionable insights that could ultimately save lives.&nbsp;</span>" data-reactid="47" type="text">
Of course, some AI startups are more promising than others. Andreessen Horowitz general partner <a href="https://a16z.com/author/vijay-pande/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vijay Pande</a> told Yahoo Finance he is particularly bullish on companies such as <a href="http://www.freenome.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Freenome,</a> which the firm invested in last June. The Palo Alto-based startup uses machine learning to help detect different types of cancers from a blood test rather than from a tissue sample — a process that detects cancer long before more traditional methods can. Another startup Pande invested in, the health tech start up <a href="https://cardiogr.am/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cardiogram</a>, is promising because it makes sense of and analyzes large amounts of user data to provide actionable insights that could ultimately save lives. </div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Of course, some AI startups are more promising than others. Andreessen Horowitz general partner <a href="https://a16z.com/author/vijay-pande/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vijay Pande</a> told Yahoo Finance he is particularly bullish on companies such as </span><a href="http://www.freenome.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">Freenome,</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> which the firm invested in last June. The Palo Alto-based startup uses machine learning to help detect different types of cancers from a blood test rather than from a tissue sample — a process that detects cancer long before more traditional methods can. Another startup Pande invested in, the health tech startup <a href="https://cardiogr.am/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cardiogram</a>, is promising because it makes sense of and analyzes large amounts of user data to provide actionable insights that could ultimately save lives.&nbsp;</span>" data-reactid="47" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Some&nbsp;A.I. ventures are trying to shake up other long-standing industries, like the San Carlos, Calif.-based </span><span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://www.farmersbusinessnetwork.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Farmers Business Networks</a>,</span><span style="font-weight:400;">&nbsp;a social network for, well, </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">farmers</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">, that relies on machine learning to improve data results around seed performance and pricing. And there are many, </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">many</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;"> more.</span>" data-reactid="48" type="text">
Some A.I. ventures are trying to shake up other long-standing industries, like the San Carlos, Calif.-based <a href="https://www.farmersbusinessnetwork.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Farmers Business Networks</a>, a social network for, well, farmers, that relies on machine learning to improve data results around seed performance and pricing. And there are many, many more.</div>
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While it's too early to tell which of those startups will evolve into viable businesses and which won't, it's relatively easy to look back over the last decade now to see past "micro-bubbles" for what they actually were.</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://fundersclub.com/team/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alex Mittal,</a> CEO and co-founder of the </span><a href="https://fundersclub.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">FundersClub</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, an online VC firm which invests in promising tech startups, agrees Silicon Valley has found itself swept up in macro-trends over the years that come and go in predictable cycles.</span>" data-reactid="50" type="text">
<a href="https://fundersclub.com/team/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alex Mittal,</a> CEO and co-founder of the <a href="https://fundersclub.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">FundersClub</a>, an online VC fir m which invests in promising tech startups, agrees Silicon Valley has found itself swept up in macro-trends over the years that come and go in predictable cycles.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;"><a href="https://fundersclub.com/team/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alex Mittal,</a> CEO and co-founder of the </span><a href="https://fundersclub.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400;">FundersClub</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, an online VC firm which invests in promising tech startups, agrees Silicon Valley has found itself swept up in macro-trends over the years that come and go in predictable cycles.</span>" data-reactid="50" type="text">
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"Every time there's a focus on a technology that's new, it gets overhyped, and the hype reaches an extreme," Mittal told Yahoo Finance. "The pendulum always seems to swing too far, and there's some sort of correction. Sometimes, it literally was just hype. There's no substance, and then it goes away. But sometimes, there's something really there."</div>
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The 2008 financial crisis, interestingly, marked the first micro-bubble, marked by the "sharing economy," a business model based on the idea that assets or services are shared between people through the internet or mobile. <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/?af=43720035&c=A_TC%3Dfmeb9dyr2w%26G_MT%3De%26G_CR%3D100808697856%26G_N%3Dg%26G_K%3Dairbnb%27%26G_P%3D%26G_D%3Dc&atlastest5=true&gclid=CPmP-fD-l9ICFYqifgodtrYAaA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Airbnb</a>, founded in 2008, singlehandedly legitimized the idea of couch-surfing as a hotel alternative, by easily letting people rent out a room, an apartment or a home; <a href="https://www.uber.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Uber</a> in 2009 upended the crusty, old taxi industry by creating a network of private drivers reachable with just a few easy taps on the smar tphone.</div>
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But while Airbnb and Uber have become bona fide global businesses, many more sharing economy upstarts failed to catch on. Remember the Uber copycat Sidecar? Shut down in 2015, because Uber and Lyft had more money and an easier-to-understand user experience.</div>
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How about laundry delivery ventures Prim and Washio? Shuttered in 2014 and 2016, respectively, due to low profit margins and high infrastructure costs. Even businesses like Homejoy, an online marketplace for cleaning services, hit the skids — despite many a venture capitalist crowing about what a promising business it was — apparently due to a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/07/23/what-really-killed-homejoy-it-couldnt-hold-onto-its-customers/#3e81c0d5114c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">lack of repeat customers</a> and slew of lawsuits.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">H</span><span style="font-weight:400;">ow about laundry delivery ventures Prim and Washio? Shuttered in 2014 and 2016, respectively, due to low profit margins and high infrastructure costs. Even businesses like Homejoy, an online marketplace for cleaning services, hit the skids — despite many a venture capitalist crowing about what a promising business it was — apparently due to a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/07/23/what-really-killed-homejoy-it-couldnt-hold-onto-its-customers/#3e81c0d5114c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">lack of repeat customers</a> and slew of lawsuits.</span>" data-reactid="58" type="text">
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Washio was the victim of another micro bubble.<br />
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">On the heels of the sharing economy bubble came a slew of e-commerce startups like online design store Fab.com. It burned through a significant chunk of the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-03/fab-com-is-sold-in-billion-dollar-darling-s-spectacular-rise-and-fall" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">$325 million it raised&nbsp;</a>in aggressive attempts to expand globally, acquiring similar sites in Germany and England, before a spectacular crash-and-burn that few in Silicon Valley, including its investors, will forget anytime soon. </span>" data-reactid="77" type="text">
On the heels of the sharing economy bubble came a slew of e-commerce startups like online design store Fab.com. It burned through a significant chunk of the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-03%20%20%20/fab-com-is-sold-in-billion-dollar-darling-s-spectacular-rise-and-fall" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">$325 million it raised </a>in aggressive attempts to expand globally, acquiring similar sites in Germany and England, before a spectacular crash-and-burn that few in Silicon Valley, including its investors, will forget anytime soon.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">On the heels of the sharing economy bubble came a slew of e-commerce startups like online design store Fab.com. It burned through a significant chunk of the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-03/fab-com-is-sold-in-billion-dollar-darling-s-spectacular-rise-and-fall" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">$325 million it raised&nbsp;</a>in aggressive attempts to expand globally, acquiring similar sites in Germany and England, before a spectacular crash-and-burn that few in Silicon Valley, including its investors, will forget anytime soon. </span>" data-reactid="77" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Meanwhile, once-promising home furnishings site One King's Lane, which failed to differentiate itself enough from the glut of flash-sale sites, <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/10/11/bed-bath-beyond-one-kings-lane-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sold for just $12 million</a> last August to Bed Bath &amp; Beyond — a serious markdown from its $900 million valuation of yesteryear — and online furniture retailer Dot &amp; Bo <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/9/24/13040938/soohoo-at-the-end-of-the-day-dot-bo-just-failed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">used up its $20 million</a> in funding before shuttering last September.</span>" data-reactid="78" type="text">
Meanwhile, once-promising home furnishings site One King's Lane, which failed to differentiate itself enough from the glut of flash-sale sites, <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/10/11/bed-bath-beyond-one-kings-lane-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sold for just $12 million</a> last August to Bed Bath & Beyond — a serious markdown from its $900 million valuation of yesteryear — and online furniture retailer Dot & Bo <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/9/24/13040938/soohoo-at-the-end-of-the-day-dot-bo-just-failed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">used up its $20 million</a> in funding before shuttering last September.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Meanwhile, once-promising home furnishings site One King's Lane, which failed to differentiate itself enough from the glut of flash-sale sites, <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/10/11/bed-bath-beyond-one-kings-lane-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sold for just $12 million</a> last August to Bed Bath &amp; Beyond — a serious markdown from its $900 million valuation of yesteryear — and online furniture retailer Dot &amp; Bo <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/9/24/13040938/soohoo-at-the-end-of-the-day-dot-bo-just-failed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">used up its $20 million</a> in funding before shuttering last September.</span>" data-reactid="78" type="text">
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">The most recent micro-bubble to burst? On-demand food delivery startups. No less than a dozen food delivery startups have shuttered over the last 18 months, with names like Bento, Spoonrocket, Din, Kitchit, Kitchen Surfing, and the creatively-named Take Eat Easy. Others like Munchery, Zesty and Sprig, trudge on, but with considerably downsized workforces. Because, while people certainly enjoy good dining, there were too many startups for San Francisco locals for them to keep track of and not enough interested mouths to feed. Indeed, Din founders Emily Olson and Rob LaFave pointed to an overly crowded market as a key reason for closing the startup in </span><a href="http://sf.eater.com/2016/10/25/13398674/din-shut-down-san-francisco" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400 ;">a postmortem interview</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> with SF Eater in October.</span>" data-reactid="79" type="text">
The most recent micro-bubble to burst? On-demand food delivery startups. No less than a dozen food delivery startups have shuttered over the last 18 months, with names like Bento, Spoonrocket, Din, Kitchit, Kitchen Surfing, and the creatively-named Take Eat Easy. Others like Munchery, Zesty and Sprig, trudge on, but with considerably downsized workforces. Because, while people certainly enjoy good dining, there were too many startups for San Francisco locals for them to keep track of and not enough interested mouths to feed. Indeed, Din founders Emily Olson and Rob LaFave pointed to an overly crowded market as a key reason for closing the startup in <a href="http://sf.eater.com/2016/10/25/13398674/din-shut-down-san-francisco" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a postmortem interview</a> with SF Eater in October.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">The most recent micro-bubble to burst? On-demand food delivery startups. No less than a dozen food delivery startups have shuttered over the last 18 months, with names like Bento, Spoonrocket, Din, Kitchit, Kitchen Surfing, and the creatively-named Take Eat Easy. Others like Munchery, Zesty and Sprig, trudge on, but with considerably downsized workforces. Because, while people certainly enjoy good dining, there were too many startups for San Francisco locals for them to keep track of and not enough interested mouths to feed. Indeed, Din founders Emily Olson and Rob LaFave pointed to an overly crowded market as a key reason for closing the startup in </span><a href="http://sf.eater.com/2016/10/25/13398674/din-shut-down-san-francisco" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400 ;">a postmortem interview</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> with SF Eater in October.</span>" data-reactid="79" type="text">
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Many of the venture capitalists and founders I've spoken to in recent months are hopeful that this latest boom in A.I. and machine learning start ups isn't part of another micro-bubble in the way many sharing economy and e-commerce startups came and went in the past, largely because these technologies can ostensibly benefit and improve any industry, from health care to agriculture to <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ces-2017s-breakout-star-amazons-alexa-215615362.html">consumer-focused virtual assistants</a>. (Hello, Alexa.)</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Many of the venture capitalists and founders I've spoken to in recent months are hopeful that this latest boom in A.I. and machine learning startups isn't part of another micro-bubble in the way many sharing economy and e-commerce startups came and went in the past, largely because these technologies can ostensibly benefit and improve any industry, from health care to agriculture to </span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ces-2017s-breakout-star-amazons-alexa-215615362.html"><span style="font-weight:400;">consumer-focused virtual assistants</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. (Hello, Alexa.)</span>" data-reactid="94" type="text">
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"A.I. is probably more accessible than it has ever been before," contended Peter Cahill, an authority on A.I., who has spent the last 15 years studying speech technology and neural networks from Dublin, Ireland. "It's easier for companies to see the clear benefits from it because technology has largely caught up."</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Maybe they're right this time, or maybe the Farmers Business Networks of the world will eventually join the startup graveyard, alongside Fab.com, Homejoy and so many others. But as Mittal points out, this almost blinding sense of optimism — that any startup with a good idea can succeed — is what makes Silicon Valley unique and, dare I say it, innovative. Because for every 100 startups, 10 of them may become successful, and perhaps one has the potential to become the next transformative company like Facebook (</span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB"><span style="font-weight:400;">FB</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">). </span>" data-reactid="96" type="text">
Maybe they're right this time, or maybe the Farmers Business Networks of the world will eventually join th e startup graveyard, alongside Fab.com, Homejoy and so many others. But as Mittal points out, this almost blinding sense of optimism — that any startup with a good idea can succeed — is what makes Silicon Valley unique and, dare I say it, innovative. Because for every 100 startups, 10 of them may become successful, and perhaps one has the potential to become the next transformative company like Facebook (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB">FB</a>).</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<span style="font-weight:400;">Maybe they're right this time, or maybe the Farmers Business Networks of the world will eventually join the startup graveyard, alongside Fab.com, Homejoy and so many others. But as Mittal points out, this almost blinding sense of optimism — that any startup with a good idea can succeed — is what makes Silicon Valley unique and, dare I say it, innovative. Because for every 100 startups, 10 of them may become successful, and perhaps one has the potential to become the next transformative company like Facebook (</span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB"><span style="font-weight:400;">FB</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">). </span>" data-reactid="96" type="text">
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"It's a large part of the reason I'm still here," Mittal confesses, with a sheepish grin.</div>
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No doubt many in Silicon Valley would agree.</div>
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This article is curated from the original post written by <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/author/jp-mangalindan">JP Mangalindan</a> who is a senior correspondent covering the intersection of business and technology. -Yahoo Finance</div>
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