Customer Development Design IP Non-Compete 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. 2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. Venture Fest was not integral to their success.
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.”
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www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. IP Location Tools. questions and answers for non-programmers.
Steve Blank
MAY 4, 2009
In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. I loved to compete against these companies.
grasshopperherder.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Non-compete. I was once asked to sign a one year non-compete agreement as a sweat equity consultant. Without receiving a real salary, I’d be wary of signing a non-compete in an area which I have domain expertise in. Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development. Customer Development (27).
news.ycombinator.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
He chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was put on paper, but the engineers agreed, every one of them, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder gas engine block in one piece. We have a start-up in the works.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Non of this academic stuff. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I’m studying design. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup?
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