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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

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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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. it’s all a continuum.

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

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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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. Every time another execution process is added, corporate innovation dies a little more. Act Like a Startup.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. The advantage of commodity software stacks drops initial startup costs for Internet Commerce companies. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

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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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