Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. A niche studio is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP in a specific industry and domain – for example Flagship Pioneering , which is focused on health care and incubated LS18 — the company that became Moderna.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. If the startup is acquired for its IP, talent or revenue, it should be rapidly integrated into the acquirer. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. However, they need to match a top-level (board, CEO, exec staff) agreement on strategy and structure. Lessons Learned. We now have the tools to build successful corporate entrepreneurship programs.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed. and how to price the product.

Widget 120

Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Their value proposition was to provide service matching, capacity planning and usage monitoring & control. Any IP you need to license? The Agora Cloud Services team was now making a tool set for managing Amazon Web Services cloud compute usage. They believed their tools could save customers 30% of their Amazon bill.

South Dakota 217

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. If the innovation threats the company faces do not match these, the corporation may need a different approach to addressing the disruption such as making a large scale acquisition, e.g., VMWare’s acquisition of Nicira , merger, or outright selling itself, e.g., EMC’s sale to Dell.

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). Their real-world performance generally degrades over time if they are not updated regularly with new training data that matches the changing state of the world.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417