Continuing with the Nine Guiding Principles, onto Principle Three. Image via Wikipedia Everyone knows that raising private capital to finance
A common way for startups to get going is by taking technology invented at a university (or federal laboratory or
Much of the work that I have done involves transferring technologies out of academia or federal laboratories. The framework for
You know Chutes and Ladders–the board game (Snakes and Ladders to those of you from the British Commonwealth). It’s popular
We’re a few weeks into the Lean LaunchPad Class, NSF Innovation Corps edition, and one phrase comes up over and
You can’t sell it if you can’t make it. Most of the companies that I have worked with over the
Cover of The Four Steps to the Epiphany This is the first of my Nine Guiding Principles. About 10 years
What are we going to make? Who are we going to sell it to? Why will they care? How are
In June of this year I gave a talk at the TAPPI conference in Washington, D.C. on the guiding principles