Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. Or can we outsource these activities to Partners?” So What Does this Have to Do With A Founding Team? Are we missing a founder?

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Build a credible business implementation plan to quantify costs. Even a non-profit needs income to operate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways.

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Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 310

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

And hiring an intellectual property attorney may seem like a budget dealbreaker. If you decide to tackle the process on your own, there are several online resources for managing the whole process. Ultimately, the upfront cost of a trademark lawyer should be considered an investment into your business. Hiring an attorney.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

Choosing the right business structure for your startup will have important implications on the cost, flexibility and tax consequences of running your business. If you are developing your startup with a partner or co-founder, failing to create a detailed business partnership can cause serious legal ramifications later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

The professors know how to get grants to fund development for you in strategic focus areas, like biotech, that would otherwise cost you many thousands of dollars. Most universities have friendly law professors, or an entrepreneurship legal clinic, to address concerns like protection of intellectual property and privacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Copies of intellectual property filings such as patents, copyrights and trademarks, all owned URL addresses, and even copies of source code, may be resident in the deal room, dependent upon the type of buyer. Up-to-date insurance policies, leases, financial documents and schedules such as fixed assets are copied here. The payoff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

Here are seven key ways to do this: Frame the competition as manageable. For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” Emphasize intellectual property and dynamic product line.

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Intellectual Property Cloud Leadership Global 279

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Start by defining your key resources, activities, and partners. Whether it’s managing your supply chain or automating customer service, look for ways to optimise every aspect of your operations. PDF to Word conversion tools can be a lifesaver for managing documents efficiently.

Intellectual Property 132

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

One of the ways our adversaries try to gain the advantage is by attacking our supply chain through methods like fraud, introduction of counterfeit materials, control of raw materials, cyber and intellectual property attacks, denying access to strategic materials and rare earth minerals. Risk Management Tools.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A board management solution with strong security is the best way to protect board information, such as meeting minutes and other documents. Others are individuals, partners, and small groups looking to extort companies for financial gain. All of this information could be combined and sold to be used by other criminals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

Hockey Stick 386

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 386

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways.

Partner 251

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud 251

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. Objective 2 – Detect intruders faster to reduce or eliminate the cost of data breaches by implementing traps. So what can organizations do?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. On the positive, the cost of living is amongst the lowest in the nation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The value proposition is a short statement that clearly communicates the target customer, the customer’s problem and the pain that it causes, the unique solution that addresses this problem, and the net benefit of this solution (value derived versus relative cost) from the customer's perspective. Proposition. Partnership.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. . ” The Cost of Financing. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2016

If their intellectual IP is stolen or if they are discovered to have been a launching pad for attacks against a larger business partner, it can mean going out of business. Most don’t have security information and event management (SIEM) systems or threat intelligence data. Cyber insurance is often prohibitively costly.

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Differentiation Security Intellectual Property Non-Compete 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs.

Intellectual Property 250

Intellectual Property Business Model Angel Investor Channel 250

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2020

Here are seven key ways to do this: Frame the competition as manageable. For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” Emphasize intellectual property and dynamic product line.

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Intellectual Property Cloud Leadership Global 313

Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2021

Nonprofits that follow best practices for governance, risk management, and financial responsibility are less likely to engage in irresponsible or unethical activities. Risk management is an essential component of good governance. A responsible risk management analysis process should send up a few red flags.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Can I afford the cost of any adjustments that need to be made? Important software: Business planning and management software. Customer relationship management software. Project and resource management solutions. Protect any intellectual property you may own by applying for copyrights, trademarks, or patents.

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Software Review Exit Strategy Technical Review Business Plan 153

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Find partners or investors. Consider branding yourself as an expert in real estate, personal injury, family law, intellectual property, or even admiralty law. Management plan. This section outlines your legal and management structure. marketing and advertising costs. manufacturing costs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

by JP James, Managing Director of Libreum Capital Management. Obviously you need to clearly understand your situation and your cost benefit analysis so that you can go into the deal with a solid understanding of what is a huge success for yourself. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup'

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Securities and Exchange Commission Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence 164

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. each while Sharpie markers run $0.375 apiece. Looking ahead. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. each while Sharpie markers run $0.375 apiece. Looking ahead. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Property Rights. The intellectual property of one company may be licensed to another company in different countries. Each license needs to be individually negotiated, so the rights of the intellectual property holder are maintained by each company in their commercial transactions. Find a Partner.

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Intellectual Property Global Finance Partner 230

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Copies of intellectual property filings such as patents, copyrights and trademarks, all owned URL addresses, and even copies of source code, may be resident in the deal room, dependent upon the type of buyer. Up-to-date insurance policies, leases, financial documents and schedules such as fixed assets are copied here.

Software Review 76

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Decision-makers at larger companies often have a “don’t rock the boat mentality” because of fear of making a mistake that could cost the company a lot of money and as a consequence cause them to lose status within the company or even their position. Managing a Business Operations Strategy' A Case in Point. See Also Innovate!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Practice Builders says that “a 10 percent increase in pricing can result in a much better return than a 10 percent reduction in costs—or even a 10 percent increase in patient volume.”.

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