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Pfizer says U.S. court invalidates Celebrex patent; generics loom — Reuters

Pfizer — U.S. court invalidates Celebrex patent; generics loom | Reuters: Ouch!:-( Knocking the block of of the buster. Pfizer is taking a big hit with this court ruling against Celebrex patent. Surprisingly, the stock price, not so much so. Almost not even a jitter as it stays around $32 per share. That’s $3B in annual sales with $2B in the US (relevant to the US court ruling, obviously). IF the company repeats its $51B…

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Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage

Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage: Great insight on competitive advantage, flexibility, and innovation. Article, but a nice video of Rita as well. Book:McGrath’s most recent book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) ‘via Blog this’

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Pono – HiRes Music – Kickstarter 250% funded – Muzak will never be the same!

Pono Music – Where Your Soul Rediscovers Music by the PonoMusic Team — Kickstarter: Pono Music… a project funded at Kickstarter. http://kck.st/1g5xVf3 High resolution music in a world that has gone Digital! Finally, I can put those olde (analog) records back on the shelf! This Kickstarter.com campaign is set to roll over $2M in fund raising today. !Oops, took too long to blog! It is already over $2M! Original goal was only $800k. It is headed…

Florida Business Incubation Association: Florida Incubators

Florida Business Incubation Association: Business incubators are so very cool. Generally they bring together all the components a business will need to get started or to expand. This usually includes funding sources. But as important are the key services that every organization needs. Business advice (often tied in to the SBA’s Small Business Development Centers — SBDC)… Accounting, IT, Intellectual Property protection (patents, TM, C,…), secretarial services, etc. Lots of marking help are critical, web…

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Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites For Fundraising – Forbes

Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites For Fundraising – Forbes: So you wanna get funding? The first and fastest way, always, is to go to friends and family. They know you after all, and in spite of that, they may — just may — be willing and able to invest. The next best way is to look around the channels of distribution for your product. They are the companies that will understand and appreciate your product/service fastest….

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Phosphate World and Patent World. Sir John Bennet Lawes, Father of Fertilizer!

Check out the post at our sister blog SustainZine.com: Phosphate World. This blog talks about the phosphate industry in Florida and the nice resort being built out of the rubble of past Phosphate mines over in the Tampa Bay area. That actually is pretty cool, but the point that phosphate fertilizer from mines is non-sustainable, and consequently is a broken business model. Peak Phosphate in the world could arrive by 2030. Innovation in preserving and…