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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. Act Like a Startup.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

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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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Steve Blank

Regulation and Intellectual Property. Accounting Basics and Multi-stage Finance. Agility and resiliency are not tested inside the building. Customer Discovery. First Team Presentation – What’s the Idea and How Large is the Opportunity. Building Startup Teams. Metrics That Matter (Business Model Metrics).

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Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation

Duct Tape Marketing

And that really is like the guide for corporate finance executives on how to value a company. 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?

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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? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it?

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. more details ].

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7 lessons we learned from the bankruptcy of Whatser

The Next Web

Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. The backbone of your technology company revolves around a well-organized, up-to-date, specific and documented vision, brand-key, business plan, intellectual property rights, contracts, financial administration, NDAs and bylaws it can rely on. KPI’s are different for each start-up.