Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution. Here I recommend a 5-year projection of revenues, expenses, and funding requirements.

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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.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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Intellectual Property IP Software Review Non-disclosure Agreement 213

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

Many great technology solutions, such as hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make into a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 266

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Engineers design chips (adding their own designs on top of any IP cores they’ve bought) using specialized Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. Chip Foundries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Intellectual property is tough. Sophisticated search engines. I’m already seeing search engine parameters that can match image features, so singles will soon be able to search cyberspace for their ideal partner, without the need to join any dating site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

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Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 262

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. A narrow scope doesn’t help your case either.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

After all, your team is the engine of your business machine. This could range from intellectual property concerns to international trade laws. Bringing on board a team that doesn’t gel well or lacks the necessary skills. It’s crucial to find that sweet spot between growing your team and maintaining quality standards.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build.

Lean 269

Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. Their leadership has shown incredible foresight in engineering an amazing economic engine and formidable military.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 19, 2012

I think the applications (for the service) are almost endless," gushed panelist John Dillon, chief executive of cloud platform provider Engine Yard. "I But Price was concerned about the intellectual property rights. If they're not, then I'd be concerned about what their intellectual property rights are," he said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

For your eyes only” features are also covered as well as a configurable cryptographic engine for storage. Take intellectual property. Solutions that also allow recipients to review information about messages, including others’ responses, before opening them.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Intellectual Property 133

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Power Recommendation Engines. Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. IP (Intellectual Property) Vendors Also Offer AI Accelerators. AI/ML in Collection.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2016

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. A long-term advantage usually also requires intellectual property, such as a patent, trade secret, or trademark. Commercialization requires infrastructure. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. Protect Your Intellectual Property. The closest analogy I have for a PS person is a “sales engineer” who is normally a technical staff member who assists in sales campaigns.

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Software Review Software IP Technical Review 321

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Our economic and foreign policy officials didn’t notice the four-alarm fire as we first gutted our manufacturing infrastructure and sent it to China (profits are better when you outsource); then passively stood by as our intellectual property was being siphoned off; and had no answer to China’s web of trade deals (China’s Belt and Road).

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Technology Russia China Intellectual Property 392

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue. That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. billion U.S.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 278

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Helix will have liquidity at 366 days on a tightly regulated security token exchange.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Non-Compete 317

Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 317

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

This element is usually called technical due diligence and typically consists of a day with your engineering and marketing team led by internal team leaders. Related discussions include intellectual property status and plans. This is really an assessment of the team and internal processes as well as the product.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Intellectual Property 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Bring awareness to employees with social engineering, training, and positive reinforcement tactics. Create your organization with cyber security at the forefront of your development and creative thinking strategies, and keep your data, intellectual property, and brand safe from hackers.

Security 100

Security Intellectual Property CTO Hire Offshore 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. Their leadership has shown incredible foresight in engineering an amazing economic engine and formidable military.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Finally, they need to validate intellectual property protections and status. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

Chinese factories also reverse engineer really well. This is not to condone the violation of intellectual property rights, but if you have a generic product you want manufactured, say, an antique door knob that you really like, a factory in China will be able to mass produce it for you in less time than any other factory in the world.

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China Global Cost Thailand 92

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. He has written several books on intellectual property law. He was raised and educated in London.

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