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IP & Tech Transfer , Tech Transfer & IP

Finding the Technology Transfer Office

As a professor or student interested in entrepreneurship you might have heard about something called a Technology Transfer Office (TTO). It’s the place that is supposed to help you turn your idea into money. The next few posts will be a quick guide to finding, understanding and leveraging these...

November 10, 2010July 13, 2017

IP & Tech Transfer

Intellectual Property & Secrecy

For the last few days I have been staring at the title for the last topic in my “Spin-Off vs Start-Up” mini-series. Unlike the topics of focus, budget and customer development, it seemed really hard to write about intellectual property without a long explanation of the patent system. Thankfully,...

November 4, 2010July 14, 2017

Entrepreneurship , People

Founder Focus

At a recent talk on student entrepreneurship at McGill I received an audience question about the limited alignment between academic and entrepreneurial focus. This hit the nail on the head. Focus makes ventures succeed. Paul Graham goes as far as predicting instant death for companies funded by active graduate...

November 1, 2010July 14, 2017

Entrepreneurship , People

Budgets & Payroll

Frugality has become the watch word in the start-up blogsphere. It is rare to find a blog that doesn’t advocate lean business models, unpaid founders, and generally spending as little as possible. We are told that the new development tools dramatically lower the cost of your first product and...

October 27, 2010July 14, 2017

Entrepreneurship , People , Tech Entrepreneurship

Customer Engagement & Metrics

As promised, here is the first detailed follow-up to the introductory post for the topic of university spin-offs versus conventional start-ups. One of the most common recommendations for entrepreneurs is to focus on customer engagement early in their new venture. In fact, a whole set of new online nomenclature...

October 25, 2010July 14, 2017

IP & Tech Transfer , Tech Entrepreneurship

Spin-Off vs Start-Up

The internet offers a lot of advice for start-ups – some good, a lot of it bad. In fact, giving advice has become a profitable industry all by itself with the inevitable impact on quantity and quality. Much of the good advice is focused on Web2.0 start-ups and often...

October 19, 2010July 14, 2017

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