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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

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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. Just get out of the building.” What is it that’s unique about the market I’m in?

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

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Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. More on this in the next post.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

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One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project – the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. In this way, the primes artificially restrict DoD’s technological funnel The Rapid Equipping Force operated with speed and urgency to deliver solutions to real customer problems.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

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In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Startup Tools

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Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on. Can we touch base on this.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

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She took a break from Stanford in 1990 and 1991, as VP of business development at Protein Design Labs , Inc. Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. California Israel Chamber of Commerce.