Steve Blank

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. A niche studio is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP in a specific industry and domain – for example Flagship Pioneering , which is focused on health care and incubated LS18 — the company that became Moderna.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. If you hire subcontractors or friends to do some work, get assignment agreements as well.). For some of these assets, you get protection automatically. What is Protectable. _. In the U.S.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. If the startup is acquired for its IP, talent or revenue, it should be rapidly integrated into the acquirer. Lessons Learned.

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Lying on your resume

Steve Blank

But instead the minute I said, “my first startup used CATV coax to implement a local-area network for process control systems (which 35 years ago pre-Ethernet and TCP/IP was pretty cutting edge.) In fact he had to convince the VP of Marketing who didn’t want to hire you. That’s it?? Did I get the job or not? Ben loved you.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” JAIC Is Applied AI – Focused on Impact.