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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy » 24 Responses Tweets that mention Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! This time it was serious.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Read : John Mullins & Randy Komisar, Getting to Plan B (2009) pages 133-156. Any IP you need to license? Test pricing in front of 100 customers on the web, 10-15 customers non-web. What are the risks involved? What are your competitors doing? Deliverable for Feb 15 th : Assemble an income statement for the your business model.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

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You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Steve Blank

So bowing to popular demand the 2009 blog posts are now available on Amazon on a portable device which provides instant and random access to any post and does not require power or an internet connection. This new “book,” Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost , attempts to remedy that by organizing the 2009 blog posts in a coherent fashion.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

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In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Reply hackrnews hacker , on May 4, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: Isn’t google a perfect example of a “going out of business&# strategy? Reply alancommike , on May 4, 2009 at 9:24 am Said: This is so true, i’ve seen it time and again.