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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

“Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits. That works for almost all markets.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Being a Trademark Attorney and owner of an Intellectual Property Law Firm, The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC, I know the importance of launching a business with a strong name that is not generic but rather suggestive and requires some thought or imagination. The rest is history. Thanks to Billy Lowe, Gloss & Toss® ! #6-

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. AI/ML in Collection.