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Will 3-D Printing Cause Traditional Manufacturing to Collapse?

Harvard Business Review

All products bear a licensing agreement that makes each consumer an official beta tester of the purchased “prototype.”. The PR boost such research generates leads to greater investment in their capabilities. Much of traditional large-scale manufacturing may cease to exist.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, it will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. Startups with huge burn rates — building leases, staff, PR and advertising — ran out of money. It’s an almost $2 billion bet based on a set of hypotheses. Then one day it was over.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

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model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. Programmers, UX/AI, MBA, agile product/project manager, other specialists…. PR – blogs, press releases, Events, demos, conventions.