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7 Keys To Strategic Partnerships That Profit Everyone

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. like WeChat.). Competition.

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7 Ways Getting In Bed With The Enemy Can Be Win-Win

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. like WeChat.). Competition.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

A Proof of Concept center, which is not the same as a full-fledged incubator, would also be responsible to develop a companywide core competence in business model and open innovation design and a VC-like, staged-risk funding decision criteria for new market opportunities. Lessons Learned.

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

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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7 Reasons To Turn The Enemy Into A Strategic Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic partnerships in this context can take the form of joint ventures, intellectual property licensing, outsourcing agreements, or even cooperative research. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

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