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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. So What Does this Have to Do With A Founding Team? How much value should I put on co-founders I’ve worked with before?”

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Act Like a Startup.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Here’s why.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Steve Blank

This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. Regulation and Intellectual Property. Did they describe distribution channel and assign channel costs? What is a business model? Customer Discovery.

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