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Chapter 1. Ready opportunities -- chapter 2. Ready technology trends -- chapter 3. Ready processes -- chapter 4. Ready companies -- chapter 5. Ready industry pilots

ContentsHow this book can help you -- How the best entrepreneurs think -- Always start with a market need (and not the great idea) -- The secret of marketing? Compete differently -- Don't set out to become rich -- You need less money than you think -- Building the team -- How the most successful people turn obstacles into assets -- Getting motivated and staying motivated for the long haul -- Being an entrepreneur is less scary than you think.

Gales of creative destruction -- Brewing trouble: coffee -- Stop the presses: printing the Qur'an -- Smear campaigns: margarine -- Gaining traction: farm mechanization -- Charged arguments: electricity -- Cool reception: refrigerated foods -- Facing the music: recorded sound -- Taking root: genetically modified crops -- Swimming against the current: transgenic salmon -- Oiling the wheels of novelty.

Contents"Carry out our demand if you want to escape us" -- The first cyber president -- Sirens on Capitol Hill -- To build a framework -- The department of insecurity -- The telecom challenge -- The FTC, "protecting America's consumers" -- Fear and failure, again, on Capitol Hill -- The information-sharing matrix -- A new congress brings a new energy to cyber debate -- The promise and peril of "strong encryption" -- Cyber tensions define the U.S.-China relationship -- Help wanted, desperately, for cybersecurity -- Senate debate takes shape, then "surprise!" stalls -- At long last, the political system arrives at an answer -- The unfinished journey.

Drafting effective technology policies -- Computers and software -- Email -- Internet use -- Instant messaging -- Social media, blogs, and beyond : personal posting on the internet -- Company-sponsored social media -- Cell phones -- Portable computing devices : smart phones, laptops, tablets, and beyond -- Cameras and recording devices -- Appendix -- List of forms -- Index.