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How to Protect IP When Outsourcing Software Development

Up and Running

For a lot of non-technical founders—that is, entrepreneurs with a business idea but without technical expertise— sourcing software development talent is critical. In many areas, however, the high demand for tech talent appears to be larger than the supply of qualified tech and software developers for hire.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses. Lessons Learned.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

Throw in the Zuckerberg at Harvard story--or rather Harvard "losing" Facebook and you wind up with a lot of schools wanting to figure out how the next big business can wind up on campus. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. We need people who can not only cook burgers, but cook anything , from scratch.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Weve got a little funding from VCs. You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. From "Think and Grow Rich". Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. But losing to competition is also a likely outcome. Isnt it? >>

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I built a multi-million dollar company (and sold it) from New Brunswick Canada. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan.