Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

It’s hard to get ideas outside of a company’s current business model get traction (given that the projects have to get buy-in from operating execs) – encouraging spin-offs is a tactic worth considering to keep the ideas flowing. The result was that we couldn’t find internal homes for what would have been great projects or spinouts.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. To buy innovation companies can buy intellectual property, acquire great teams, buy-out another company’s product line or even buy entire companies. Apple owned 0%.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

These included; identification of a compelling clinical need, large enough market, intellectual property, regulatory issues, and reimbursement, and whether there was a plausible exit. The heart of the therapeutics IRL also required “Proof of relevance” – was there a path to revenues fully articulated, an operational plan defined.

Incubator 310

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

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.

Security 258

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 258

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. It will have a simulated procedure space that can be configured as an Operating Room, Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit and other clinical/procedural settings.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2013

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.

Security 152

Security Intellectual Property New York City Delaware 152

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon.

Lean 258

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

REF expanded its operations to include forward teams in Kuwait and Iraq to provide technology to fill capability gaps and to counter the highest priority threats. To get closer to his customers, Newell commissioned three mobile laboratories that were airlifted to forward operating bases. Hacking For Defense (H4D).

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. This can improve indications and warnings for military operations and active cyber defense.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417