Steve Blank

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio. A niche studio is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP in a specific industry and domain – for example Flagship Pioneering , which is focused on health care and incubated LS18 — the company that became Moderna.

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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.) Type of IP. _. That changed when I joined the board of a startup, and we sued Microsoft and Sony on the same day for patent infringement – and won $120 million. Types of Intellectual Property Protection.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Some companies license their chip designs – as software building blocks, called IP Cores – for wide use. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. Resources may be CRO’s, CPT consultants, IP, Financial or Human resources (regardless of whether they’re consultants or employees.).

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). IP (Intellectual Property) Vendors Also Offer AI Accelerators. Machine Learning Training – Hardware.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

What gets lost when a large company looks at the rationale for an acquisition (IP, team, product, users) is that startups are run by founders searching for a business model. If the startup is acquired for its IP, talent or revenue, it should be rapidly integrated into the acquirer. Lessons Learned.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

IP & Protected Personal Information Theft. Update to the IP Commission Report: The Theft of American Intellectual Property: Reassessments of the Challenge and United States Policy ” The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property , 2017. Graff, “ China’s Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout ” WIRED , Feb.