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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

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Finding New Customers In Untapped Places

Duct Tape Marketing

So for us, that's really the thing is to see indigenous people running their own businesses and really in positions of leadership. So I know for me, for example, lately, I've been working with a lot of people who are thought leaders who have really well-established IP. And there are others as well. John Jantsch (03:07): Yeah.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

Our process to process appeals is particularly bad; # appeals not yet heard forms a vertical line if we graph it. We got new leadership coming in. The union leadership have been stewards and team players. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. How’s the relationship

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

Steve Blank

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy » 24 Responses Tweets that mention Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! That’s not found in a set of slides. Filed under: E.piphany « Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Having each department develop a mission statement depends on leadership and direction from the CEO. “Going Out of Business” Strategy I’m now convinced “all our departments are equal” is a “going out of business” strategy.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Both at improving your digital engagement and acquisition effectiveness, and at weaning your leadership away from the shiny hollow demo/psycho obsession. Make re-allocation of people/money recommendations to your leadership team. Switch your IP to the first opportunity from #1. Recommend changes. Look at popular categories.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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