Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. That works for almost all markets.

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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. Sea Turtles and VPN – the connections to the rest of the world. It usually doesn’t end well.

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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. Sea Turtles and VPN – the connections to the rest of the world. It usually doesn’t end well.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) The test is, ask them how they differ in their investing philosophy from the rest of their firm.). Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital.

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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. And, with irony, at this point one might guess that the pill was "50 years ahead" of the state of the art, the rest of medical science, or something or other, maybe your "market", and all that will matter not at all.

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