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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

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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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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. 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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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Steve Blank

This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. Regulation and Intellectual Property. By design we didn’t give them too much Customer Development theory. What is a business model? Customer Discovery.

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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation. Less typical is asking how it might be combined (used) with sales, marketing, distribution, purchasing, or the customer service experience.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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