Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. It will “sell itself” A business is much more than just good science: it is about customers seeing value and being willing to pay and proper validation and reimbursement coding and … A successful business is the sum (and integration!)

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. Investors highly prize gifted leaders who are business veterans with experience in similar ventures, who can move quickly and effectively. Great business model. Intellectual property (IP).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. Investors highly prize gifted leaders who are business veterans with experience in similar ventures, who can move quickly and effectively. Great business model. Intellectual property (IP).

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Creating this value is anchored in finding a repeatable, scalable business model. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Risk and reward.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues.

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ithacaVC

MARCH 25, 2011

The ownership of intellectual property (IP) developed in the classroom is a tricky topic. Let’s suppose a team of 4 students (Team ZZ) is in a business innovation class. A university typically does own the IP produced by its employees in the course of their university work. It is a lot of work.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. While it doesn’t eliminate great investor judgment, pattern recognition skills and mentoring, we’ve developed an Investment Readiness Level tool that fills in these missing pieces. Investment Readiness Level for Medical Devices.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

I mean developing and inserting a subtle collection of gentle nudges that can help increase the conversion rate by a statistically significant amount. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Not easy, but your business model has to change to survive.).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? That’s why the free business model is so popular in China.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

which they co-developed with Fenwick & West. . Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model. Typically stable, high margins; repeatable sales model; clear path to profitability; and high growth potential. Venture Debt.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. That means in their core business, large companies have a series of knowns. Often failure is the norm not the exception.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

And here are the facts I turned up: * They think their business is a huge opportunity, probably a billion-dollar plus market which nobody else is currently addressing (this last point could easily be naivete, which is common enough among entrepreneurs). * They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. *

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Basil Ayish , MBA, Business Development. Clare Pak , Business Development. The Knox team was a great mix of hands-on device engineers and business development. Don’t miss the evolution of their business model canvas in the appendix. Charvi Shetty , MS in BioEngineering, Genentech.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Do they perceive enough value to pay prices that create for you a profit margin that matches your business model? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

After a week of hectic customer discovery , the team further refined their new business model. Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. Any IP you need to license? How many people?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. For starters I’d like to tell you what I tell every startup that wants to “build a YouTube business.” I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Well, Uber has actually made new things possible in cities, new business models possible, uh, new businesses possible. So we're seeing research and development move faster, right? That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. So a good example is like Uber versus Airbnb.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It can help you consider areas you may not have thought of and the vast majority of overseas banks will require a business plan before they approve an overseas bank account. While there are a number of posts that cover the topic of writing a business plan in detail, some of the areas to consider will be: Business background.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. Direct Revenue : The company must have a direct revenue model. No advertising, content or media businesses which may have a three-way business model, but rather companies which deliver direct value to paying customers. No retail, no cleantech, no biotech etc.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t answer emails during normal business hours. You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. Or it might mean you have enough customers to have “proved&# you have a viable business model, so now you can raise money with sensible terms. You have to work in fits and spurts.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

This lead becomes your first contact and is then developed into an account. Marketing development reps were then limited to 100 accounts each and aligned with three to four sales reps to target only 400 accounts. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. I was able to work with him, and he did some due diligence on my financials, because we had a similar business model, and I was able to show this is a comparable for our exit strategy.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. You're selling a consumable product, which is a great business model. Through that process, I was introduced to that diagnostic technology and the team that helps develop it. Progress was made.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. What is the timeline to ROI and the amount of risk we are willing to assume? We’ll cover “ corporate moonshots ” in a subsequent post.).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

” Just adding a Google map to a website, I mean, you might as well just be a web developer and charge $100 an hour and have a WordPress template and knock us out and charge them $5,000. Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. So, you’re a developer, right?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As businesses grow and begin to thrive, it’s important to develop a permanent staff. Again, it depends on your business model, but investing in technology wisely and with purpose will go a long way toward helping startups achieve success. Hire Freelancers and Contract Employees.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.” Order Here.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. I think the reason I made such a mystery of business was that I wasdisgusted by the idea of doing it. Paul Erdos wasparticularly good at this.

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