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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Since, Daisi Media Corp is basically a shell for our media channels and family of sites and e-commerce businesses, I had the freedom to focus more creativity on naming other brands of the business. The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. Look out Ryan Seacrest!

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Here’s why.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Steve Blank

Regulation and Intellectual Property. None of the students were domain experts in their areas, and each team had to figure out how to contact potential customers and channel partners. Did they describe distribution channel and assign channel costs? Agility and resiliency are not tested inside the building.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Sales – What Channel to reach the customer? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Who is the Complementor? Marketing – How do you create end user demand? Regulatory Issues – What are they?

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