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  Table Of Contents Ideation Ideation: Solving a Problem that negatively affects you Ideation: Solving a Market Inefficiency or Uncovering a Gap Blue Oceans You have an idea; now what? Validate your idea with hypothesis testing How many people is enough? Analyze the data and make a decision Ideation So, you want to start a new venture, but how do you get started? The starting point is a question that gets asked and thought about often, but most startup-oriented articles do not specifically focus on this initial stage of the startup process. In a word, it starts with ideation. Denotatively, ideation is the process of forming a new idea or concept. Concerning ideating for a new venture, one can take two typical paths. The first stems from encountering a nagging problem that presents enough trouble that one actively wants to find a solution as no current solutions are sufficient or existent. The other typical path involves a deep dive into a specific market, seeking to uncover a marke...

  Introduction              Cybersecurity seems more myth than reality in the aftermath of the Equifax breach and the many subsequent ones. Hackers seem destined to crack even the most difficult cryptographic codes, yet society is left with few options, if any. When organizations with some of the best minds in cybersecurity get hacked, it leaves the rest of us feeling deflated and hopeless. Cyberattacks and breaches are occurring more frequently as the world continues to become more digital than ever before. Quantum computing is the future. It demands a solution to our cybersecurity woes as it represents a greater threat than anything that exists today. Not only do quantum computers take advantage of the “spooky” nature of entanglement and the many quantum states of superposition, but additionally, they require far less energy to perform a bit of operation. It is not a question of whether or not hackers will utilize quantum technology to break our...