The payment filtering system joins cancer research, basketball hoop advancements, and many other innovations in February’s list of Arkansas patents.

As techpreneurs, we continuously claw our way across a minefield of scarcity. The scarcity of funding, scarcity of talent, scarcity of customers, and scarcity of time define the daunting challenges all early-stage ventures face.

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The proliferation of social media has created an amazing way to do polling, focus groups, and in general to tap the “wisdom of the crowd.”