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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

you make substantive changes to one or more parts of your initial business model, and this new data affects your biological and clinical hypotheses. I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? Turning a profit at a growing company is nearly impossible regardless of business model.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. The second class will be firms with a demonstrated ability to continually innovate and reinvent their business models. These innovations do not require change in a company’s existing business model.

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8 Simple Steps to Start an Online Business With No Money

Kodorra

Don’t forget to choose a sound business model. Whether it is advertisement model, B2C (Business to Consumer) ecommerce, affiliate or subscription, picking the right choice could determine the rise or fall of your business. Avoid using potentially offensive words or phrases in your business name and slogan.

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Microsoft and the future of software pricing–when free isn’t quite free

The Equity Kicker

40-50 isn’t that much though, and software companies with license business models will need to keep their costs low and find efficient routes to market if they are to make good profits and become very valuable.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.