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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. . The Lean LaunchPad is now being taught in over 100 universities.

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Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Distribution Channels

Steve Blank

We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. A lean rollout for a startup would be 4-5 sales people plus 2-3 clinical applications specialists at a cost of ~$2.5 million/year. Lessons Learned.

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Critical Patent Strategies Startups Can Use From Large Companies

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Patent strategies are a series of steps that a company takes in order to secure and position its inventions, innovations, and/or intellectual property. The patent identifies as “selecting either the greatest magnitude or higher frequency search.” What is a patent strategy?

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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

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Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Now if you’re looking for an active plan that you can edit and adjust over time, you may want to consider creating a lean plan. Protect any intellectual property you may own by applying for copyrights, trademarks, or patents.

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What Is a Business Plan?

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Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. More on that in the section on the Lean Plan.

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The Ultimate Work From Home Checklist

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Protect any intellectual property you may own by applying for copyrights, trademarks, or patents. Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Once you’ve built out your Pitch, continue working on creating your Lean Plan. Set up a business bank account.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

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If you simply want to map out the aspects of your business for internal use, you can consider a Lean Business Plan. It’s also a nice touch to customize the site with search boxes for recreational products and medical products, respectively, as well as for indicas, sativas, and hybrids. Include pictures of each product.