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. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. That works for almost all markets.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

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.

Intellectual Property 213

Intellectual Property IP Software Review Non-disclosure Agreement 213

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

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. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. Sometimes you have to put aside the emotion and the passion, and just look at what is best for your business.

Non-Compete 262

Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger Acquisition 262

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

In their passion and excitement about a new product or service, entrepreneurs tend to continually narrow the scope of potential competitors, and often claim to have no direct competitors. Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos.

Intellectual Property 417

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Dilution Differentiation 417

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

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

help you integrate your product with other systems making it harder for your product to be replaced by competitors. Only Work on Projects That Support Your Core Product Effort. In the Ad Tech world PS revenue often means providing “media services” as a value-add to using your product.

Software Review 321

Software Review Software IP Technical Review 321

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 237

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Small startups act the same way, simply cloning each other’s products. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. I can’t imagine a U.S. Fear of Failure.

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2018

Many people don’t thoroughly investigate the challenges of bringing the product to market before devoting endless hours to an invention that has no market appeal. Many inventors find their inventions where they work by making an existing task or product easier or less expensive. Find ideas where you work. Be prepared to fail.

Intellectual Property 100

Intellectual Property Product Marketing United States 100

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. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Most founders bootstrap product development.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

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. Harvard Innovation Lab.

Incubator 202

Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property 202

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” followed up by “How do we scale our product(s) the fastest and most efficient way possible?”. Do we have an internet connected product/app? by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec.

Security 100

Security Intellectual Property CTO Hire Offshore 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 225

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

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. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. Sometimes you have to put aside the emotion and the passion, and just look at what is best for your business.

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. This is really an assessment of the team and internal processes as well as the product. Related discussions include intellectual property status and plans.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Intellectual Property 120

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. We already have the scientific collaboration Knowbella Platform at Minimal Viable Product (MVP).

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. It wasn’t pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products to market through learning, discovery, iteration and execution. The NSF will fund 100 science and engineering research projects every year.

Engineer 278

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 278

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Small startups act the same way, simply cloning each other’s products. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. I can’t imagine a U.S. Fear of Failure.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Entrenched Innovation Model Issues : Qualcomm’s existing innovation model – wireless products were created in the R&D lab and then handed over to existing business units for commercialization – was wildly successful in the existing wireless and mobile space. Part 1 outlining the program is here. Read it first. Lessons Learned.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. Investors are evaluating your process as well as your product.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Problem Solving with Data Driven Methods and the Innovation Engineering System “ News Flash: Innovation is no longer just a specialist’s job. New products and services are just 10 percent of the innovation opportunity; 90 percent of the opportunity lies in systems for working smarter. Resolve potential “death threats.”.

Intellectual Property 174

Intellectual Property Engineer Flash Vertical 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

Business Plan 423

Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Coach focused on motivation to productivity improvement. . Furthermore, intellectual property embedded within these spreadsheets — regardless of how protected they are — can get into unintended hands, such as via email or when copying onto a thumb drive. This is essentially a web page that acts as the user interface.

Intellectual Property 96

Intellectual Property Technology Email Social Media 96

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. They’ve been puzzling out what they would need to do to deploy their value proposition (a product, service or both). It’s tough.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. They’ve been puzzling out what they would need to do to deploy their value proposition (a product, service or both). It’s tough.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

And I’m in good company – also in the series is Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

Founder 327

Founder Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 327

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

This paid off big for the technology giant because it guaranteed its search engine and other digital services supported by advertising would be prominently featured on them. Thinking Aloud collaboration Elon Musk intellectual property patent Tesla Topher Morrison'

Intellectual Property 200

Intellectual Property California Open Source Portfolio 200

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

Naming 75

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Social Media 75

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Singapore is also at the forefront of protections related to intellectual property, offering security for innovation. Creating location-specific content helps you connect with more potential customers in their preferred language and increases your business’ chance of being discovered by local search engines in Singapore. .

Singapore 147

Singapore Asia Intellectual Property Marketing 147