Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

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. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It usually doesn’t end well.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

And I’m in good company – also in the series is Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

As you might imagine, when you go to the page on Customer Development , you find the best and the latest content from people like Steve Blank and Vinicius Vacanti.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Customer Discovery. Regulation and Intellectual Property. None of the students were domain experts in their areas, and each team had to figure out how to contact potential customers and channel partners. Yet every team did figure out how to conduct extensive out of building Customer Discovery. (By

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research. They will answer the question, “What value will this innovation add to the marketplace?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. identify financing vehicles before you need them.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

When I first started teaching customer development (searching, validating and executing a business model), one of my students pointed out that customer development was similar to the theory of a military strategist, John Boyd. Customer Development Science and Industrial Policy Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. Next week each team test their Customer Segment hypotheses (who are their customers/users/decision makers, etc.)

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company. I would also like to see our creative intellectual property better protected.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack. Until today.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Orin Herskowitz has been executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures since 2006 and is also VP of Columbia’s Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.

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

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property. So, with such deliberate obscurity and ambiguity, all he has is a way to insult entrepreneurs so that all he has is that steaming pile. Impossible to apply general advice like this to every situation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

I will emphasize to pay attention to intellectual property issues as early on as you can. This is why when I first learned about customer development, I’m like I get this, this made a lot of sense to me. …. It’s not cheap but (the lack of) it can really come back to haunt you otherwise. .

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I already own stock in two companies which own no intellectual property. Which corporate entity owns the intellectual property and other assets? Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development. Personas for Customer Development. Customer Development (27). Recent Posts. Categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

If not, are there buyers of the intellectual property? So can somebody with better branding skills than I have please come up with the new term that we can all use for what we all know we want to see – customer development, MVP, rapid iteration, pivot and learn. This is wrong.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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. Customer Development. Codeacademy.

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