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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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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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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) The result was that we couldn’t find internal homes for what would have been great projects or spinouts. Lessons Learned.

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. billion U.S.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Not only did I have a suggestion, I created a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program and named it, KidGINEER, LLC. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Steve Blank

One of the classes I teach in the engineering school at Stanford is E145: the Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship , an introduction to building a scalable startup. Regulation and Intellectual Property. Agility and resiliency are not tested inside the building. What is a business model? Customer Discovery.