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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Graphic design? UI/UX design? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Tell me about the business. How are you funding this? Who’s helping you with fundraising?

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Build a winning IP programme for successful innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

Being strategic with your intellectual property (IP) can be really important. But what is often even more important, especially for businesses built on ongoing innovation, is having a strong IP programme. Without a well-designed IP programme and its processes, the best intended strategies can fail. IP education.

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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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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. Overcoming design challenges that limit its scalability across chains. 3) Exchanges + HFTs. Gaining meaningful liquidity .

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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