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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. Open-Source IP.

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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. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

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. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies. Act Like a Startup.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. This is what the BSD license was invented for, for example. Expo SF (May.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).