Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences.

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Lean Algorithm Customer Development IP 240

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Communication synchronization is of the utmost importance when you’re working with distributed talent. Also, decide if your company needs any confidentiality or IP assignment agreements. And the third is a relentless focus on long-term customer success. People Context. For example, a Turing, we have three core values.

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Engineer Software Review Hiring Development Team Review 150

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Malta Startup 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. If that’s the case, and they don’t consider investing in two competitors to be a conflict of interest, ask them how they protect founder IP and other proprietary assets.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

The Startup Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

Therefore, ensure to have access only to authorized users and IP addresses. Therefore, you will need a business sharing file sharing solution that allows you to distribute unlimited links to third parties. Businesses must ultimately strike a balance between usability, security and customization.

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Security Bandwidth IP Distribution 143

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). ” YouTube takes 45%.

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Networking Media Distribution Video 366

YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

If a company is making the leap to Voice over IP (VoIP), IT should set the expectation that this is the only voice client that should be running on the wire. File Sharing. Examples: Mega, TorrentFreak, Pirate Bay. Why: File sharing represents two significant threats to businesses.

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Networking Bandwidth Software Review Security 100

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. Distribution & Customers. Customization is time-consuming and expensive. It’s risky too.

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Intellectual Property IP Acquisition Startup 102

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences.

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Lean Customer Development IP Agile 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

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Elevator Pitch Public Relations Startup IP 240

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Business Model SEM IP Syndicate 150

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results. DataPella focuses on helping customers open the passageway into leveraging the marvels of data to accomplish greatness. 11- Four key words.

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Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

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PR Elevator Pitch Public Relations Startup 231

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As described by Tim Ferriss in Tools of Titans , to be a successful creator you don’t need millions of dollars, customers, or fans. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP. 1000 Superfans or 100 True fans?

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Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

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Public Relations Elevator Pitch Startup IP 226

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

They’ve found product/market fit (what products customers want to buy). They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea.

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Elevator Pitch Startup IP Public Relations 158

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. Furthermore, these experts can find security flaws in the system before hackers do, protecting the company and its customers.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Web API 88

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2011

Under the 1976 Copyright Act (United States), the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. For example, a typeface may be customized and used as part of a logo design. Copyright is a form of legal protection provided to those who create original works.

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Intellectual Property Software Review Design Software 134

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys.

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Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley 113

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. Any IP you need to license?

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 217

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 1, 2018

MoshPit has teams combine new technology with existing processes, products, IP, market insights, and services, in an exhaustive way. For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records.

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Technology Framework Artificial Inteligence Chicago 50

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 7, 2014

IP masking FTW! There''s a pony in there somewhere--and it isn''t charging the customer $5 extra bucks. Restaurants deserve a better, more economical, way to distribute tables, and customers deserve more transparency and fairness. They have to pay a ton of money for each customer when their margins are already super thin.

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Venture Capital IP Naming Internet 115

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The larger your customer base, the more opportunities for monetization, and therefore the more attractive your startup is for investors. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2017

WordPress Leads allows you to access all of your customer information from one dashboard. The responsive design and optional feedback buttons make this the perfect choice for finding out what visitors think of your content and customer service. Eventually, your leads will turn into customers—but only if you make it easy for them.

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SEO Analytics Caching Engineer 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Essentially, it’s the real-time individualization of a site to suit each visitor’s unique needs and guide them through a custom conversion funnel. Increased visitor engagement, improved customer experience and increase conversion rates are seen as the biggest benefits to personalization… Image Source. Understand.

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Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

Either protectable IP or at least hard IP. No advertising, content or media businesses which may have a three-way business model, but rather companies which deliver direct value to paying customers. No distributed teams, and no outsourced product development. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth.

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Seed Stage San Francisco IP Portfolio 61

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Attract higher-income customers by bringing in premium brands. While Walmart hasn’t acquired in this area yet, its internal initiatives and IP show interest. Many of its patents explore methods around automating the checkout process, shelf stocking, and customer service. Increase in-store efficiency.

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Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I would say you need customer feedback or maybe expert feedback. The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2012

Now that pretty much everyone gets that content is a must, it’s time to send your content creation and distribution to school to get smarter and more sophisticated. Imagine how powerful it would be to deliver only upsell products to current customers or special offers and discount coupon content as a way to reward customer loyalty.

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Analytics Metrics IP Social Media 64

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   (“If we can close 35% of all opportunities, and can get an opportunity by making x contacts, and there are 300 opportunities per month, then we should be able to sell 100 customers per month if we have the capital ($35 per contact) to cover the market every month.”   This results in a five-year projection of XYZ.).

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From the customer’s point of view, they would rather wait a little longer and have a better platform-specific solution, than simultaneously ship a generic product on all platforms. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60