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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. We needed to cover Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials a month earlier in the class than in the current format.

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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. How many even have MBAs? We work hard. We're cheaper.

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI): The assigned PD/PI on the SBIR/STTR Phase I award. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

Then open source the results. The government should allocate even more money to university research programs, but the results of this research should not be able to be patented and should be free for anyone to license. More recently, I’ve focused my energy on the Startup Visa movement and the Startup America Partnership.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

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8 Simple Steps to Start an Online Business With No Money

Kodorra

Remember to also do a trademark search at your country’s intellectual property office, such as USPTO (U.S If you want to minimize the cost, use free Content Management Software (CMS) such as WordPress or Joomla to quickly design a website without any programming at all. Patent and Trademark Office).

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Capital Factory Code of Conduct

Austin Startup

We are of all races, genders, beliefs, orientations, backgrounds, ages, fandoms, programming languages and Hogwarts Houses. Thievery sucks Don’t take other people’s physical property. Don’t take other people’s intellectual property (but please do contribute to open source). This is our house, our family.