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crowdfunding campaigns for,
see
ARKYD Space Telescope campaign

incentive competitions in,
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International Space University and,
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Mars missions in,
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see also
aerospace industry

Space Fair,
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“space selfie,”
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SpaceShipOne,
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SpaceShipTwo,
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SpaceX,
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Speed Stick,
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Spiner, Brent,
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Spirit of St. Louis, The
(Lindbergh),
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Sprint,
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Sprint Spark,
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StackOverflow.com
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Stanford University,
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TSensors Summit at,
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Stardust mission,
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Stein, Lee,
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Stewart, Jon,
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stone soup,
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Strasbourg, France,
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Strategic Coach,
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stretch goals,
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Student
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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS),
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subgoals,
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subtractive manufacturing,
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Summit, Scott,
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Sun Microsystems,
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supercomputers,
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super-connectors, in crowdfunding campaigns,
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super-credibility, line of,
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crowdfunding launches and,
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incentive competition launches and,
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Supermechanical,
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surveys,
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synthetic biology,
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Systrom, Kevin,
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Taylor, Alice,
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technology, exponential,
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artificial intelligence as,
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deception phase in,
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digital camera as,
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disruptiveness of,
see
disruption, exponential

Gartner Hype Cycle and,
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growth curve of,
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indicators of entrepreneurial readiness in,
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infinite computing as,
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intersection of multiple fields in,
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Moore's Law and,
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networks and sensors as,
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in putting linear companies out of business,
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robotics as,
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Six Ds of,
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see also
Six Ds of Exponentials

synthetic biology as,
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3–D printing as,
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traditional industrial processes disrupted by,
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user-friendly interfaces and,
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technology manager, in crowdfunding campaigns,
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TED conferences,
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Teller, Astro,
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Teller, Edward,
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Tesla, Nikola,
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Tesla Motors,
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Tesla Museum campaign,
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Tesla Science Center,
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testing-based insights,
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Thiel, Peter,
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Threadless.com
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3–D printing,
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birth of,
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disruptive impact of,
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exponential entrepreneurship in,
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toy industry impacted by,
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user-friendly interfaces for,
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3–D Systems,
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Thrun, Sebastian,
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Time
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Tongal,
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TopCoder,
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Toronto, University of,
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touch screens,
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toy industry,
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Toyota Camry,
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traffic data,
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transportation industry,
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3–D printing's impact on,
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trend surfing,
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True Ventures,
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T-shirt design competitions,
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Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin E.,
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Turnstyle Solutions,
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Tversky, Amos,
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Twine,
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Twitter,
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Uber,
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Ubuntu,
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Unilever,
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United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,
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Unix,
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upselling, in crowdfunding campaigns,
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USA Today
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user interfaces,
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for
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–D printing,
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in robotics,
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in synthetic biology,
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US Postal Service,
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Utah Technology Council Hall of Fame,
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uTest,
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Vaz, Andrew,
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Venter, J. Craig,
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Vicarious,
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video games,
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video surveillance,
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Virgin Atlantic,
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Virgin Galactic,
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Virgin Management group,
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Virgin Music,
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voice recognition,
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Voltaire,
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Vor-Tek,
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vWorker,
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Wachs, Eli,
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Walmart,
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Wardenclyffe (Tesla's laboratory),
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Watson (IBM supercomputer),
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Waze,
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web browsers,
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Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XCHALLENGE,
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Weston, Graham,
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Wikipedia,
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Wilson, Rainn,
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Winning the Oil Endgame
(Lovins),
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Wired
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Wojcicki, Susan,
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X.com,
see
PayPal

XPRIZE competitions,
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Ansari XPRIZE,
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Google Lunar,
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Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE,
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Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XCHALLENGE of,
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XPRIZE Foundation,
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Yahoo!,
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Y Combinator,
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YouTube,
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Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico,
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Zappos,
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Zero-G,
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Zip2,
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Zooniverse,
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Zuckerberg, Mark,
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