Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? How do I decide who I need to have on board on day one?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

One of the ways our adversaries try to gain the advantage is by attacking our supply chain through methods like fraud, introduction of counterfeit materials, control of raw materials, cyber and intellectual property attacks, denying access to strategic materials and rare earth minerals. We have rather Byzantine hiring processes.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. So what can organizations do?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies. 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. As a consequence, companies are optimized for execution over innovation.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

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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