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. _. A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. What is Protectable. _.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. The National Institutes of Health has adopted our class for its I-Corps @ NIH program starting this October.

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

Steve Blank

Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . ——— I’m not sure I believe every one of the report conclusions – it just covers very early stage web startups, and the methodology is still shaky – but this is a landmark study.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

For teams developing Digital Health solutions, Abhas Gupta of MDV noted that the Investment Readiness Level was closest to the standard web/mobile/cloud model with the addition of reimbursement and technical validation. Diagnostics.

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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?! It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. That’s not found in a set of slides.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

and if a web-based product, a minimum feature set,) all delivered in 10 weeks. Suggested Projects: While your first instinct may be a web-based startup we suggest that you consider a subject in which you are a domain expert, such as your graduate research. Teams that select a web-based product will have to build the site for the class.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

The Agora Cloud Services team was now making a tool set for managing Amazon Web Services cloud compute usage. Any IP you need to license? Instead of selling a city the wind turbine hardware, their revenue model moved to a Wind Power Purchase Agreement , a long term contract with a city to buy the electricity generated by the D.C.