Steve Blank

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

We’ve seen this effect in social media when it was people who were manipulating beliefs. I’ve lived through the revolutions in telecom, life sciences, social media, etc., Intellectual property lawyers are already arguing who owns the data these AI models are built on. But that’s not all.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies.

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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

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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Guns and Cyber Security

Steve Blank

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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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

——— 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.