Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

you make substantive changes to one or more parts of your initial business model, and this new data affects your biological and clinical hypotheses. The key members of the team CEO, CTO, Principal investigator, need to be actively engaged talking to customers, partners, regulators, etc. Join the I-Corps @ NIH.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

While Microsoft is putting significant effort into the accelerator program, Microsoft will not retain intellectual property or equity in any of the participating companies. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO Harmonix. Manu Kumar, Investor, K-9 Ventures. David Cohen, Founder/CEO, TechStars.

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