Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. AI in National Security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Here are the top five, as outlined by Rice in his book, which match my own experience: Management team. Funding risk. Defensibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, such as "easier to use," "lower cost" and "disruptive technology." " Investors want to buy into an entrepreneur with a startup that can provide evidence of an ability to double customer productivity, at half the cost, with patented technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2021

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. Every business needs marketing, distribution, a positive revenue model and intellectual property to survive. The exciting part about being an entrepreneur is that you can tailor the role to match your real motivations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. Check for intellectual property barriers in your way. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts. Ask domain experts to quantify value for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” Facebook spent over $150 million before revenue. Intellectual property as barrier to entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2023

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. You both need the complementary skills, ability to debate alternatives, and the tendency to keep each other motivated, that neither could match working alone. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

Intellectual Property 275

Intellectual Property Cofounder Salary Metrics 275

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2020

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. You both need the complementary skills, ability to debate alternatives, and the tendency to keep each other motivated, that neither could match working alone. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

They’ve heard rules of thumb like “A growing software company is worth 5 times their trailing 12-months revenue.&# Even narrowing the field as much as feasible, revenue multiples varied between 1.2x The “Multiples&# argument does work well in industries where company’s growth and revenue is highly predictable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. Every business needs marketing, distribution, a positive revenue model and intellectual property to survive. The exciting part about being an entrepreneur is that you can tailor the role to match your real motivations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” Facebook spent over $150 million before revenue. Intellectual property as barrier to entry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. You both need the complementary skills, ability to debate alternatives, and the tendency to keep each other motivated, that neither could match working alone. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” Facebook spent over $150 million before revenue. Intellectual property as barrier to entry.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. A company needs innovation policies, innovation processes and innovation incentives to match those it already has for execution. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. The best position is some innovative technology, with a great initial product, and a big list of follow-on products that can be commercialized to keep ahead of competitors. Investors will look at turnover rates, cost of acquisition, and revenue streams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Team not a good match for the challenge. Investors are wary of startups with no intellectual property, even with a first-mover advantage. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Outside investors bet more on the team than the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. The best position is some innovative technology, with a great initial product, and a big list of follow-on products that can be commercialized to keep ahead of competitors. Investors will look at turnover rates, cost of acquisition, and revenue streams.

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Intellectual Property Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 256

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” Facebook spent over $150 million before revenue. Intellectual property as barrier to entry.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Matching 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. You both need the complementary skills, ability to debate alternatives, and the tendency to keep each other motivated, that neither could match working alone. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Pricing : Design your pricing so that will cover your costs and match the market rate. The operations section covers how your business works, from the logistics to the technology. Technology. Be specific. Operations.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Technology : If you are a technology company, it’s critical for your business plan to describe your technology and what your “secret sauce” is. You don’t have to give away trade secrets in your business plan, but you do need to describe how your technology is different and better than other solutions out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. You both need the complementary skills, ability to debate alternatives, and the tendency to keep each other motivated, that neither could match working alone. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

So universities have realized that for many students, promising a career in technology and entrepreneurship is key to recruiting high potential students. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Match students with relevant startup internships. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2010

Here are some of the key ones: Real intellectual property. The best position is some innovative technology, with a great initial product, and a big list of follow-on products that can be commercialized to keep ahead of competitors. Investors will look at turnover rates, cost of acquisition, and revenue streams.

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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). How do we access the buyers and sellers? Veritas D.C.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. Its the same with technology.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. A new commodity which has been brought into the market by technology firms, priced and sold.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If such individuals do not form a business entity to conduct business in the Field of Interest, but instead sell or assign their developments and technology in the Field of Interest to an unrelated party, I shall be entitled to [ this will vary based on the type of founder ] of the net consideration received by reason of such sale or assignment.

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