During his stay in the hospital, the finance professional came up with the idea to start a film festival.
The Silicon Valley Start-up Common is based on the idea of equity.
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Recent experience suggests it takes little more than two years for such a start-up to formulate an innovative business idea, establish a web presence and begin to dominate its chosen sector.
In a start-up, all too often the original idea is good and gets the ball rolling.
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It got 8, 300 submissions, says Michael Collins, boss of the Big Idea Group, a start-up firm that helped Staples to organise its competition.
Citizen scientists "are trying to turn that on its head, " says Raymond McCauley, who had come up with the idea for the vitamin study with Ms. Swan and works for a start-up that helps groups run their own studies and trials.
Or it means maybe you can't start up that business right away that you've got this great idea for.
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Laying there in a sweat, late at night, we no longer have to dream up some new invention of an idea in order to start our businesses or make it big.
While it is truly a dumb idea to use credit cards as a source of start-up funding, given the ridiculously high interest rates the credit card companies charge, people still do it.
After all, the talented engineers who work in the pillar companies are quite comfortable with the idea of maintaining their previous commuting patterns by working in a start-up near the pillar company while building a new company with their former colleagues.
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The company is founded by Ooshma Garg, who came up with the idea last July to bring together her interests in food and tech start-ups.
It is always hard to fund a start-up, but Dr Rodriguez said it was particularly difficult to get investors to buy into the idea of a money-making investment in Africa.
But here's an idea: Tear up those contracts, negotiated when global competition didn't much matter, and start over.
Diagnostics for All, a Massachusetts-based start-up that has developed paper-based diagnostic tests the size of a postage stamp, chose to commercialise its idea in the developing world so as to circumvent America's hideously slow approval process for medical devices.
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