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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing? Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( A business model is all the parts of a strategy necessary to deliver a product to a customer and make money from it.

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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. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education.

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5 Ways To Manage Intellectual Property For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP) is a primary business component for many entrepreneurs. Develop An IP Strategy. In order to protect intellectual property properly, you need to develop an IP strategy. As with many business plans, there are many necessary elements to include in your strategy.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it. While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. Their site — Modista.com — started out with shoes.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * In other words, theyll use Voice-over-IP technology to provide all the technical infrastructure of a call center (automated self service, agent queueing, etc.) . * They want to build a big brand fast after they come out of stealth mode. *

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Five signs it’s time to get your business organized

www.greenhornconnect.com

1) You and your partners have developed IP critical to your business. Intellectual property is the most valuable asset most startups possess, so it is crucial that the startup, not the founders, own IP developed for the business. Entry Dealine for Business Plan Contest at WPIVF. Resource Search.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

University research is a big business for many schools. It certainly worked out pretty well when Stanford licensed the search technology that Larry and Sergei had been working on back to them at Google. They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!).

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