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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.)

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . We found 4 different major groups of startups that all have very different behavior regarding customer acquisition, time, product, market and team. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. Congratulations.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

And when we do make bets, they’re small bets on incremental products or acquisitions that simply add to the bottom line.”. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development. Now we’re known for “making the numbers,” living on our past successes.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. Any IP you need to license?

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Out of all my ideas I think this is the one I think would be the most fun to work on, from development to marketing. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). This is lean development without any customer development. However, this will impact the value of your IP. For example, it could be a successful single app or game. Discuss.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)