Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

There are a myriad of other important ways that you can demonstrate your competitive advantages in your presentations, discussions, and business plan, including the following: Highlight your intellectual property. Quantify any dramatic changes to the cost or value equation. Reducing margins to lower prices won’t help your case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Partnering will begin to happen across great distances, include reciprocity thinking, and even intellectual property will shift from a closed to a more open system. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example they can reduce component cost, introduce a line extension or create new versions of the existing product. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Act Like a Startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Partnering will begin to happen across great distances, include reciprocity thinking, and even intellectual property will shift from a closed to a more open system. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Partnering will begin to happen across great distances, include reciprocity thinking, and even intellectual property will shift from a closed to a more open system. This is the new world of prototyping.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Partnering will begin to happen across great distances, include reciprocity thinking, and even intellectual property will shift from a closed to a more open system. This is the new world of prototyping.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

And it shows your company’s cost structures, how each department interacts with the others and where your company can work with other companies or partners to implement your business. Regulation and Intellectual Property. for product companies, this should include manufacturing and cost of goods). Customer Discovery.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? And it's sort of become like a standard business school textbook. And we wanna see the world do better.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating. Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Where do the ideas come from? Innovation – Business Model? Technology? New/Disruptive?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

what’s behind your financials, your go-to-market strategy, your current traction in the marketplace, your competition and why you’re better, your intellectual property or “secret sauce,” your exit strategy, etc.). I also learned quickly that no two angels are alike. What one angel likes another may not care about. Tweet This Tip.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. As a general rule, the more trust a society has, the lower the cost/friction of transacting with each other. Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

What will it cost to build your project? If your project is going to cost more, you need to go back to your concept and your wireframes and reduce the scope. Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour. How much will you need? It depends on the scope of the project, of course. 10-15/hour.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million! Example here.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

tells you how much adwords cost. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development.

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