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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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Startup IP tips before you launch

NZ Entrepreneur

ii) Using open source software. Open source software can be useful in terms of development of a project. However, while it might sound like a great idea, you can quickly jeopardize your potential to obtain intellectual property protection by using open source software.

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Has Blockchain Fever Died Down In 2018?

YoungUpstarts

There has been a lot of speculation around cryptocurrencies and this has in many ways obscured the fact the blockchain, the open-source and decentralized ledger that drives these digital currencies has the potential of radically transforming how ownership is verified.

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Is Your WordPress Website Optimised?

YoungUpstarts

WordPress is one of the world’s greatest, if not the greatest, open-source platforms available. Being the world’s most popular open source platform, WordPress also comes with its security risks. You can block users from logging in by certain usernames and also IP addresses. Optimise for Security!

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

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Tips For Protecting Intellectual Property

YoungUpstarts

Many individuals encounter problems later in the development phases that make going forward in a partnership much more difficult. Your patents will have more support when your IP is seen online often. Open-Source IP. A great way to give your IP and ideas a competitive advantage is to open-source them.

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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. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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