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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. Each patent filing will cost your company $10-30k and take 1-4 years. A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Therefore we’re going to teach the class in the following order: 1) value proposition, 2) customer segments, 3) activities, 4) resources, 5) partners, 6) channel, 7) customer relationships, 8) revenue/costs.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). The founding team is testing for the right combination of product, market, revenue, costs, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

IP & Protected Personal Information Theft. Update to the IP Commission Report: The Theft of American Intellectual Property: Reassessments of the Challenge and United States Policy ” The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property , 2017. Graff, “ China’s Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout ” WIRED , Feb.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Karl Handelsman of CMEA Capital modified the standard Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for teams developing therapeutics to include identifying clinical problems, and agreeing on a timeline to pre-clinical and clinical data, cost and value of data points, what quality data to deliver to a company, and building a Key Opinion Leader (KOL) network.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

These clinics reduce hospitalization but Insurers weren’t paying to cover clinic costs nor would they cover the use of the Knox device. If they didn’t have a compelling value proposition for the insurers (cost savings, increased revenue, etc.) In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Yet it is a business that manipulates materials an atom at a time and its factories cost 10s of billions of dollars to build. (By Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores.

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