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Tips For Protecting Intellectual Property

YoungUpstarts

It is important to take steps to protect your intellectual property. A simple way to protect your intellectual property is the hold off on filing a patent. Once a patent is filed, others can create similar products using workarounds without violating any intellectual property rights. Avoid Joint Ownership.

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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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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. We're cheaper.

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

It’s a collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop NIH-specific version of the Innovation-Corps. I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). (I’ll I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). They cannot be done by proxies.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Now is the time to catch the wave and just do it yourself.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.

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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

Startup Professionals Musings

Software crowd sourcing. This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.