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Lean startup, Hardware Edition
Everybody knows all about lean startup, MVP, customer development and product/market fit (or at least, we hope everybody does). The key tenets make total sense: MVP as the smallest possible thing you can build to complete a build-measure-learn cycle; the need for speed; charge from day one if you can and so on. A software startup can easily go through two or three build-measure-learn cycle in a couple of months.
But what if your startup is creating a hardware product, where it takes 6 months or more to manufacture the smallest possible thing you can test with?
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Practical Patent and Trademark Search Tools
Too many entrepreneurs have a great idea for a product and launch it before doing some much needed IP searching. Do you want to know what's already out there before you take the leap? Have you picked a product or company name only to later find out that it's been taken?
This session will highlight practical, cheap and FREE tools (and how to use them), available to anyone, that will allow you to search for patents and trademarks. Already established? These tools can also be used to get an understanding of the market and gain knowledge of your competitors.8 votes