Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.” Commit to a major customer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. However, business models in the Life Sciences are a bit more complicated than those in software, web/mobile or hardware. Hobart Harris led one of the teams.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

In 2020, data breaches are among the greatest cybersecurity concerns, with health records, corporate intellectual property, smart cars, and connected devices being the most vulnerable targets. In other words, the opportunities for data breaches are increasing and the methods to do so are becoming more and more intricate. 5G Network.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. I call them “ Lean VC’ s” to emphasize why they’re different. (In Lean VC’s are Different. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The startups in our Lean LaunchPad classes and the NSF I-Corps incubator use LaunchPad Central to collect a continuous stream of data across all the teams. Recently we ran a Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class with 26 teams of clinicians and researchers at UCSF. Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for Corporations and Investors.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

——— While how you iterate and execute your idea is more important than the idea itself, there are parts of your intellectual property a startup does need to protect. It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford’s School of Engineering). They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research. And Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad class could do just that.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR! Why does that matter? But here’s the big “aha.” When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

From scratch, Dylan designed a new system and a new process that helps us to deliver a fast, fair, and and friendly method that allows us to keep our promise to the community to respect and protect their intellectual property. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intellectual Property. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. He prefers to work with companies that are building Web-based applications and have relatively low start-up costs. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Business Software.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford's School of Engineering). They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research. And Stanford's Lean LaunchPad class could do just that.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2015

Choosing the right web design is crucial, as is making sure that your shopping cart software is well-suited for your business. However, Etsy is home to plenty of web design businesses, for example, so this platform isn’t altogether out of the question. Steps to starting an online business: 1. Plan your business.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

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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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps.

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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. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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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. The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

SaaS (software as a service) means that users access software through their internet browser or a web-based app. The software maker hosts their product on their own servers, which is why SaaS products are sometimes referred to as a “hosted solution” or “web-based solution.”. We call this approach a Lean Plan. Just start.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am. Then came back as a sort of a young intellectual property attorney, working for a wonderful firm here in town. OnwardUS is a web-based platform. And so that is continuing to lean in to the present rollout.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How to Protect Your Intellectual Property When Crowdfunding: 5 Tips [link] crowdspring.co/1LyHiI1 1gm1uRE . 1G5hhZZ .

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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