Steve Blank

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. Resources may be CRO’s, CPT consultants, IP, Financial or Human resources (regardless of whether they’re consultants or employees.).

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

——————– Class 4 Jan 25 th Testing Demand Creation. Class Lecture/Out of the Building Assignment: How do you create end user demand? If non-web, build demand creation budget and forecast. Did anything change about Value Proposition or Customers/Users, Channel, Demand Creation?

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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Steve Blank

So bowing to popular demand the 2009 blog posts are now available on Amazon on a portable device which provides instant and random access to any post and does not require power or an internet connection. ……………………………… 60. They Raised Money With My Slides?!……………

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How to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before Establishing an Innovation Outpost

Steve Blank

Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. A disruption does not present an existential threat to the corporation, it can be addressed with a relatively modest investment required to establish and expand an outpost, rather than the large investments required for corporate moonshots, e.g., IBM’s Watson.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We were going to do that by turning marketing into a machine to generate end user demand, drive the that demand into our sales channels, and educate our sales channels. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. It varies by company and changes over time.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). Instead of investing in massive amounts of computers needed for training companies can use the enormous on-demand, off-premises hardware in the cloud (e.g.