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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations. Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative or operational. Technology level.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations. Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative or operational. Technology level.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas. We needed to cover Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials a month earlier in the class than in the current format. (You

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property. Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams or product lines are acquiring startups that are still searching for a business model. Often they have brought in an operating executive as the new CEO.

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Everything You Need To Know About Virtual Data Rooms

YoungUpstarts

With the ubiquitous reliance on PCs and specialized software to keep a business running smoothly, and coupled with the fact that more enterprises are making the transition of being paperless, many of the previously document-heavy operational practices have been shifted to the virtual realm. IP Management.

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Software Patents

Startup Professionals Musings

Until mid-2013, the USPTO still operated on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent. At least that shouldn’t happen again, as the US process is now consistent with the rest of the world. Valid patents have been overturned by unpatented prior art. Applying for a patent is a negotiation. Marty Zwilling.