Xiaochang Li is the cofounder of Somaware, an_eyes-free, ears-free, hands-free wearable navigation device._This post is part of the_Lessons Learned_series_featuring NYU entrepreneurs’ first-hand accounts of challenges faced in starting a business and_the_lessons learned along the way. One of the first things I noticed when my co-founder, Mike, and I began speaking to people about_tactile navigation devices_was how just about everyone had ideas about what (and whom) they could be useful for. It was encouraging, of course, to see that people not only understood what we were trying to do, but also found the idea compelling enough to begin imagining their own...

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