Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. There are financial metrics (Return on Investment, Hurdle Rate, etc.) metrics (validated/invalidated hypotheses, Investment Readiness Level ) and processes. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unseen Metrics. The same company, didn’t have a system to accurately identify it’s own key metrics. Would you invest in a company that didn’t know it’s own metrics? This would of course be in regards toa single corporation which holds all the IP and revenue.). Me neither.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. What did we do?

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Wireframing, prototypes: buil-in widgets and shapes. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Xtranormal. Presentation tools.

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