Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. We do this by helping teams rapidly : define clinical utility now, before spending millions of dollars. understand the core customers and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization.

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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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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. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

for startups created from university intellectual property to number one. I was quite surprised to find the depth and interest in innovation and sheer number of startups that I saw. I was even more surprised to learn that University of Utah has gone from being ranked 94 th in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

The result was that we couldn’t find internal homes for what would have been great projects or spinouts. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

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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. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

One of the ways our adversaries try to gain the advantage is by attacking our supply chain through methods like fraud, introduction of counterfeit materials, control of raw materials, cyber and intellectual property attacks, denying access to strategic materials and rare earth minerals.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

also have to understand the complexities of reimbursement, regulation, intellectual property and clinical trials. Startups in the Life Sciences ( therapeutics , diagnostics , devices , digital health , etc.) Last fall we prototyped an I-Corps class for life sciences at UCSF with 25 teams. Hobart Harris led one of the teams.

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Intellectual Property Lean Business Model Mobile 254

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by 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.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies. Third, smart companies manage an innovation portfolio where they can pursue potential disruption in a variety of ways.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Therapeutics Channel = what you’re selling in the early stage is data and Intellectual Property to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies. In therapeutics it’s a direct sale of data and Intellectual property. App Stores, and Box are also channels for consumers and enterprise customers, respectively.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

These included; identification of a compelling clinical need, large enough market, intellectual property, regulatory issues, and reimbursement, and whether there was a plausible exit. Allan May of Life Science Angels modified the standard Investment Readiness Level to include metrics that were specific for medical device startups.

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Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

Intellectual property stolen, customer data hacked, funds illegally transferred, goods stolen, can damage a company and put them out of business. As well as a loss of privacy. But for businesses, the threats are even more real. Go ask RSA , Northrop, Lockheed, Google, Amazon and almost every other company with an online presence.

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Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 258

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. At the end of the program each team will understand what it will takes to turn their research into a commercial success.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

Intellectual property stolen, customer data hacked, funds illegally transferred, goods stolen, can damage a company and put them out of business. As well as a loss of privacy. But for businesses, the threats are even more real. Go ask RSA , Northrop, Lockheed, Google, Amazon and almost every other company with an online presence.

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Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 152

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. The class provides Life Science/Health Care entrepreneurs with real world, hands-on learning on how to rapidly : define clinical utility before spending millions of dollars. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

——— While how you iterate and execute your idea is more important than the idea itself, there are parts of your intellectual property a startup does need to protect. Over the next two years we left them in the dust. More on this in the next post. Lessons Learned Your business concept is not a company.

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Is their any patentable Intellectual Property? It seemed like they were going to burn downed trees to do what? Make charcoal? It looked like fun but is this a hobby or a scalable business? What was their Value Chain? Their blog showed a good head-start on talking to customers. If you can’t see the slide deck above, click here.

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Business Model Intellectual Property Lean Wiki 234

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Regulation and Intellectual Property. What is a business model? Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. Customer Discovery. First Team Presentation – What’s the Idea and How Large is the Opportunity. Building Startup Teams. Metrics That Matter (Business Model Metrics). Accounting Basics and Multi-stage Finance.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

In addition, they demoed to the paper management research group at the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange project (a joint project between the Stanford Law School and Computer Science department to help computers understand copyright and create a marketplace for content).

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Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 228

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

Most startups and innovative companies are unwilling to risk exposing their Intellectual Property and go through the paperwork of dealing with the government, so they choose not to pursue government ventures. In this way, the primes artificially restrict DoD’s technological funnel

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Orin Herskowitz has been executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures since 2006 and is also VP of Columbia’s Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer. In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership.

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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. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools. Specialized Materials. Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE). Fabless” Chip Companies. Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs). Chip Foundries.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Business Development – What type of partnership or whole product is needed? Customer Development Steps – How do we iterate with customers? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long?

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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 time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&#

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

In addition, we found we needed to add new material on Intellectual Property, how to license inventions from the university, and discussions about team dynamics. Going forward we’ll continue to offer the class in two sections with the second class focused on science and technology.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

For example, Google acquired several of the robotics startups that had what was considered the best intellectual property. Acquire : Companies buy startups in order to access both the innovations the startups are developing and their employees, and in the process inhibit competitors from getting them.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Incubator 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

I will emphasize to pay attention to intellectual property issues as early on as you can. We looked back and one of the great things is a byproduct of all those service was just this massive library of 3D assets, 3D models of the human body… that we owned.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

IP (Intellectual Property) Vendors Also Offer AI Accelerators. None of these companies own a chip manufacturing plant (a fab) so they all use a foundry (an independent company that makes chips for others) like TSMC in Taiwan (or SMIC in China for for its defense related silicon.).

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