Business Model and IP

Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator

Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

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.).

Acquisition

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

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.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Entrenched Innovation Model Issues : Qualcomm’s existing innovation model – wireless products were created in the R&D lab and then handed over to existing business units for commercialization – was wildly successful in the existing wireless and mobile space. Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

Programming

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property

Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

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!) of all the parts of the business model canvas.

Lean

Lean Algorithm Customer Development IP

Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Over 10 weeks each team gets out of the building talking to 100 customers to test their hypotheses across all 9 boxes in the business model canvas. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses. It’s flexible enough to be modified for industry-specific business models.

Incubator

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

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. and how to price the product.

Widget

Widget Lean Business Model Metrics

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

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.

Wiki

Wiki Lean Management Business Model

The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

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?

South Dakota

South Dakota Business Model Lean United States

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Don’t miss the evolution of their business model canvas in the appendix. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. If they didn’t have a compelling value proposition for the insurers (cost savings, increased revenue, etc.) The Knox Medical Device presentation slides are below.

Lean

Lean Customer Development IP Agile

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Our original idea had been nothing more than an untested set of hypotheses.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup

The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Some companies license their chip designs – as software building blocks, called IP Cores – for wide use. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores.

Taiwan

Taiwan IP Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property

How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

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? Will an Innovation Outpost provide results at the speed we need?

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage

Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

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.

Vertical

Vertical Silicon Valley Intellectual Property RSS

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is where I brought in the thinking of how we build businesses here in Silicon Valley. We needed to be building leveraged business models in scale. Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.”

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO

StartUpRoar

Steve Blank

Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Trending Sources

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

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