Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Commit to a major customer.

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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. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. 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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. What’s Your VC Tech Stack?

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents.

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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. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intellectual Property. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. Cooley Report Reviews Second Quarter Venture Capital Financing Trends. Intellectual Property. Venture Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. 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

MARCH 15, 2016

If you’re not seeking bank or investor funding, you can probably get away with a lean business plan. One thing is certain: You’ll be unlikely to receive venture capital funding, as venture capital firms generally only invest in businesses that offer the potential for a high return, quickly.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? 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? Product Development – How do you engineer it?

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For example, without a clear vehicle (a company) to contribute intellectual property into, a founder who walks away may mean that the future company won’t own its own IP. Tags: VC Venture Capital startups agile entrepreneurship founder agreements investing lean startups.

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