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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. The company did have some revenue and paying users, but not enough to make any judgement on the company’s future prospects. I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. What Makes AI Possible Now?

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. Because shareholders liked that it was only 2 weeks revenue or 6% of cash on hand. Numbers for Australian market.