Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Specifically, I often point to the NSF or the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for high-tech startups.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? —— When I wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany and the Startup Owners Manual , I believed that Life Sciences startups didn’t need Customer Discovery.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

They’re not the only startup in this fight. An entire wave of new startups and scaleups are providing satellite imagery and analysis, satellite communications, and unmanned aerial vehicles supporting the struggle. Other startups are providing portable cell towers – “backpackable” and fixed. In the U.S.,

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

As the healthcare industry continues to adopt digital technology, the number of healthcare startups is also growing. Here are seven factors that you must take into account to build a successful health startup and keep it afloat forever. In fact, startups have to stay one step ahead of the changing market conditions.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2014

With that SBIR-Phase 1 funding the teams were trying to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of their technology. We’ve learned that information from 100 customers is just at the edge of having sufficient data to validate/invalidate a company’s business model hypotheses. BCN Biosciences.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And a disapproval or delayed clearance can put a startup out of business. Mastering the reimbursement path requires a company to have yet another group of specialists conduct expensive clinical cost outcomes studies. This sensor has been the graveyard of tons of startups that have crashed and burned pursuing this.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dual-use” products reduce the cost for defense adoption of products. Prioritization : Once a list of innovation ideas has been refined by curation, it needs to be prioritized using the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities.

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