Awhile back I blogged about Ashwin, one of my ex-students who wanted to raise a seed round to build Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) with a hyper-spectral camera and fly it over farm fields collecting hyper-spectral images. These images, when processed with his company’s proprietary algorithms, would be able to tell farmers how healthy their plants were, whether they were having trouble with diseases or bugs, and whether they had enough fertilizer and enough water.
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To read the original article: How to be smarter than your investors – live with your customers | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Steve Blank
