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Tips For Protecting Intellectual Property

YoungUpstarts

It is important to take steps to protect your intellectual property. A simple way to protect your intellectual property is the hold off on filing a patent. Once a patent is filed, others can create similar products using workarounds without violating any intellectual property rights. Avoid Joint Ownership.

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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

For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. So What Does this Have to Do With A Founding Team? How much value should I put on co-founders I’ve worked with before?”

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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Not everything will work.

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The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile stack. The 47th (-46) Annual Business Model Competition.

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7 Key Ingredients to Address the Challenge of Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Business agility can also be improved by proactively looking ahead – for new trends and technologies that will likely attract competitors and customers. Do your homework privately to assess realistic value, intellectual property, and build relationships. Optimize your ability to react. Avoid stock deals, and pay with cash.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 16 – Acquisition & Sustainment – Ellen Lord

Steve Blank

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.