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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Hypotheses about Intellectual Property, Reimbursement, Regulation and Clinical Trials found on the left side of canvas are as, or more important than those on the right side of the canvas.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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SXSW Startups: Knowbella

Austin Startup

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. Helix will have liquidity at 366 days on a tightly regulated security token exchange.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Finding a strategic partner, investor or buyer

Berkonomics

Some potential buyers or strategic partners might want your intellectual property, or revenues, or profitability, geographic advantage, or sale force, or your employee base. Column two is the golden ticket. What would the candidate want from your company in a transaction?” Think carefully. Column four is the easiest but also important.

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