Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

Many great technology solutions, such as hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make into a business. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities and new government regulations.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 266

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. Fear of Failure.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. and sell them to consumers, businesses, and governments. What’s Next – Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2016

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. Eventually, China’s innovation-driven economy needs intellectual property rights and anti-trust laws that are enforced. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. Fear of Failure.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Apply for contests and business grants. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

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.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 278

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

government reengineered its approach to building weapons. In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

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 - seems like another planet.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Are there greater opportunities for higher rankings in the search engines, or is the design of your website helping or hindering you? ( It can help you consider areas you may not have thought of and the vast majority of overseas banks will require a business plan before they approve an overseas bank account. Business model.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. Anyone wanting to be able to do their job or a run a business would find this extremely difficult. As a reminder, this is the model that the west has thrived under.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems.

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