Remove Business Model Remove Engineer Remove Intellectual Property Remove Non-Compete
article thumbnail

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S.

China 326
article thumbnail

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

Steve Blank

2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. We were prematurely pushing some of the teams in the business units. It gets really tough when these projects are launched and have to fight for survival against current corporate business models.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” Intellectual property protection is great on paper and “limited” in practice. company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S.

China 218
article thumbnail

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.

Engineer 283
article thumbnail

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models.

article thumbnail

Eureka! National Science Foundation's I-Corps Trains a New Generation of Scientists in Business

ReadWriteStart

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.

article thumbnail

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. questions and answers for non-programmers. Cloudomatic. The Toolkbox. Batchbooks. Market Research. LaunchRock. Google Insights. Keyword Research. Google Keywords. Wordtracker.