Steve Blank

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Enterprise software company – copyright and trade secrets are probable. Types of Intellectual Property Protection. Examples. _.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. Resources may be CRO’s, CPT consultants, IP, Financial or Human resources (regardless of whether they’re consultants or employees.).

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Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

We kept track of all this data by instrumenting the teams with LaunchPad Central software.). Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. It includes reimbursement, regulation, IP, validation, channel access, etc. The class had 1,145 engagements with instructors and mentors. (We

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

T he software rolls all the data into an Investment Readiness Level score. We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. Or watch the video here.). Diagnostics.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

We kept track of all this data by instrumenting the teams with LaunchPad Central software.). The Spacer hardware was paired with d ata analysis software for tracking multiple facets of asthma patients. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. Jingwei Zhang , PhD in BioEngineering at UCSF.

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The Pay-It-Forward Culture

Steve Blank

They also set up ethnic-centric networks like TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur) and the Chinese Software Professionals Association where they shared information about how the valley worked as well as job and investment opportunities. Looking for a chance to run their own show, many of them left and founded startups.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Some companies license their chip designs – as software building blocks, called IP Cores – for wide use. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores.

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