Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. I call them “ Lean VC’ s” to emphasize why they’re different. (In Lean VC’s are Different. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research. And Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad class could do just that. Until today.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford's School of Engineering).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. More on that in the section on the Lean Plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How to Protect Your Intellectual Property When Crowdfunding: 5 Tips [link] crowdspring.co/1LyHiI1 Launching a New Product? 1gm1uRE .

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