Steve Blank

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. An industry agnostic studio , such as Rocket Internet , is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP and is industry and market agnostic.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Therefore we’re going to teach the class in the following order: 1) value proposition, 2) customer segments, 3) activities, 4) resources, 5) partners, 6) channel, 7) customer relationships, 8) revenue/costs.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. Lessons Learned.

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Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

Over the course of the class Mira Medicine team spoke to over 80 customers, partners and payers. It includes reimbursement, regulation, IP, validation, channel access, etc. They wanted to help medical centers and large providers assess disease progression to guide therapeutic decision-making. Here’s their 2 minute video summary.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.)

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Todd Morrill wanted teams developing Diagnostics to have a reimbursement strategy fully documented, the necessary IP in place, regulation and technical validation (clinical trial) regime understood and described and the cost structure and financing needs well documented. Diagnostics. You can see the entire presentation here.

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

Steve Blank

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.