How To Overcome The Boredom That Follows Mastery
In this week's post on Forbes.com I take on a topic that always challenged me but I struggled to identify what was [...]
Why You Should Write Your Own Term Sheet
In this week's post I propose a new way of thinking about talking to investors. See: Why You Should Write Your Own [...]
Patents For Sale: How To Separate The Valuable From The Worthless
In this post on Forbes.com I talk about the experience of Penn State University in auctioning off some of their patents. http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilkane/2014/05/22/a-modest-proposal-for-licensing-patents/
Watch Out for Convertible Notes
Here is my latest post on Tech Cocktail about the hazards of financing your company with convertible notes (debt). Photo courtesy [...]
Report on the White House Lab-to-Market Summit
On May 20, 2013 I was honored to be an invited "expert" at the White House Lab-to-Market Inter-Agency Summit held [...]
Prenups for Startups: How to Structure Founding Teams
One of the people in my networking group in Chicago posed this question: How do your teams structure yourselves so [...]
A Bright Idea: Teaching Educators To Be Entrepreneurs
The National Science Foundation's new I-Corps L (for learning) program asks whether innovative educators can be taught the basics of entrepreneurship. I write about [...]
How To Overcome The Boredom That Follows Mastery
In this week's post on Forbes.com I take on a topic that always challenged me but I struggled [...]
Why You Should Write Your Own Term Sheet
In this week's post I propose a new way of thinking about talking to investors. See: Why You [...]
Patents For Sale: How To Separate The Valuable From The Worthless
In this post on Forbes.com I talk about the experience of Penn State University in auctioning off some [...]
Licensing Technologies from Universities
A common way for startups to get going is by taking technology invented at a university (or federal laboratory or similar public institution) and “transferring” [...]
Culture Clash: Scientists vs. Entrepreneurs
Much of the work that I have done involves transferring technologies out of academia or federal laboratories. The framework for academic spinoffs is that typically [...]
Why A Startup is Like Chutes and Ladders
You know Chutes and Ladders–the board game (Snakes and Ladders to those of you from the British Commonwealth). It’s popular among the younger set since [...]
Get Out of the Building
We're a few weeks into the Lean LaunchPad Class, NSF Innovation Corps edition, and one phrase comes up over and over again by the instructors: [...]
Principle Two: Get the Manufacturing Right
You can't sell it if you can't make it. Most of the companies that I have worked with over the past 10 years have had [...]
Principle One: It’s All About the Markets
Cover of The Four Steps to the Epiphany This is the first of my Nine Guiding Principles. About 10 years ago Tom Churchwell, [...]