Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The right answer to this question is that you bring some new intellectual property to the table – like a patent or other secret sauce. In all cases, people management and leadership are key. Should this be a non-profit or for-profit business? Keep alternative business models on the table.

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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. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. was known for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2017

A strong work ethic is great, but patents and intellectual property are critical. Do you have the business discipline to prevent scope creep? It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it. Is your business plan complete and documented? You need quantified value for customers to see, feel, and pay for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

Other intellectual property has similar value, including trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Investors are looking for technology, process, or business model breakthroughs, to move costs to a new level. Expert knowledge in the relevant business domain is another plus. This approach is not convincing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works. Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Lessons Learned Your business concept is not a company. More on this in the next post.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Financing A Small Business. Business Taxes. Selling A Business. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Intellectual Property.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Not only patient safety and privacy laws but patent and intellectual property laws are also regulated heavily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Of course, you can find these elements embodied in many of the business plan templates and tools out there, such as the Business Model Canvas. Free” is not an exciting business model for investor interest. Identify your intellectual property or “secret sauce.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Innovation – Business Model? Business Development – What type of partnership or whole product is needed? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Others you need to know when you execute the plan. Technology?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Monday, September 13, 2010 Dan Khan says: Yeh, I like to think the job of a good tech co-founder is like being a good Riker to Picard’s leadership – break things down into black and white and offer sensible alternatives to challenge the business model, marketing plan, features, etc, but not necessarily disagree outright (i.e.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&#

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

It’s something both Xi Jinping and Mark Zuckerberg now have in common: an inability to ever be pushed out of their leadership positions, regardless of their non-majority financial stake in what they control. ‘ Oh, but it doesn’t suit our business model’ . Yes, it is a crazy as it sounds. Let me give you an example.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

The equally hard reality is that, again for most businesses, that this is an unfixable problem. Unfixable for reasons including: Lack of scalability to their business models (see most, but by no means all service businesses) or non-existent / de minimis brands, intellectual property, trade secrets, etc.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this. startupcto

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