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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. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. Lessons Learned.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. Illegal for them to operate trucks.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. September 9, 2009 7:00 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which country’s laws does the corporate entity operate under? Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets? Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Seed Startups.