Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2014
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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Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( What gets lost when a large company looks at the rationale for an acquisition (IP, team, product, users) is that startups are run by founders searching for a business model. Lessons Learned.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. IP & Protected Personal Information Theft. This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. Do you agree with the current doctrine? Why or why not?
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
JULY 30, 2012
Most of the sales force were previously design engineers. But instead the minute I said, “my first startup used CATV coax to implement a local-area network for process control systems (which 35 years ago pre-Ethernet and TCP/IP was pretty cutting edge.) “Steve, the VP of Sales and Marketing previously ran their engineering department.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 25, 2022
Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. Each of these distinct industry segments feeds its resources up the value chain to the next until finally a chip factory (a “Fab”) has all the designs, equipment, and materials necessary to manufacture a chip. Specialized Materials.
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