Steve BlankJon FeiberJohn Burke
Ann Miura-KoJerry EngelJim HornthalOwen Jacob
The Lean LaunchPad
Lecture 8: Resources
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customer segments
key partners
cost structure
revenue streams
channels
customer relationships
key activities
key resources
value proposition
KEY RESOURCES
which resources underpin your business model? which assets are essential?
KEYPARTNERS
OFFER
CHANNELS
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS
CUSTOMERSEGMENTS
REVENUE STREAMSCOST STRUCTURE
KEYACTIVITIES
KEYRESOURCES
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Business Model Canvas
Key Resources
Four Critical Resources
• Physical• Financial• Human• Intellectual
Physical Resources
• Two types: – company facilities – product/service resources
Physical Resources
• company facilities– office space, lab equipment, company location
• product/services – supply of silicon wafers or iron ore, or
thousands of feet of warehouse space?
• Many physical goods are capital intensive
Financial Resources
• Friends and Family• Crowdfunding• Angels• Venture Capital• Corporate partners • Others: SBA or SBIR grants• Lease-lines• Factoring• Vendor-financing
Human Resources
• qualified employees• mentors, teachers, coaches, advisors
Mentors, Teachers, Coaches
• Mentors, teachers, coaches advance your personal career– If you want to learn a specific subject find a teacher– If you want to hone specific skills or reach an exact
goal hire a coach – If you want to get smarter and better over your career
find someone who cares about you enough to be a mentor
Advisors
• Advisors are people you need to help advance your company’s success– Founders fail when they believe their visions are facts– Listening to experienced advice can help you sort
through whether your vision is a hallucination– Getting an advisory board (by expanding your circle of
accumulated wisdom past their investors) is so important that it’s an explicit step in the Customer Development process
Qualified Employees/Culture
• Are the difference between a good idea that never went anywhere and a billion dollar firm
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Executive Traits by Stage
Entrepreneurial- Driven Learning and Discovery
Mission-Oriented Management
Process-Managed Execution and Growth
Personal Contribution
Superstar Leader Manager of plans, goals, process, and personnel
Time Commitment 24/7 As needed Long term 9 to 5
Planning Opportunistic and agile
Mission- and goal-driven
Process-, and goal-driven
Process Hates and eliminates As needed, driven by mission
Implements and uses
Management Style Autocratic, star system
Distributed to departments
May be bureaucratic
Span of Control Hands-on Mission-driven, synchronized
Distributed down the organization
Focus High and passionate vision
Mission Execution
Uncertainty/Chaos Brings order out of chaos
Focuses on fast response
Focuses on repeatability
Executive Traits by Stage
Executive Traits by Stage
Executive Traits by Stage
Intellectual Property
Trademark protects branding & marks
• Trademark gives you the right to prevent others from using “confusingly similar” marks and logos
• Trademark protection lasts as long as you use the mark
• The more you use the mark, the stronger your protection
• Trademark registration is optional, but has significant advantages if approved
• Country by country
Copyright protects creative works of authorship
• Copyright gives right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work
– Protects “expressions” of ideas but does not protect the underlying ideas
• (Way) more than just technology: – songs, books, movies, photos, etc.
• Copyright protection lasts practically forever• Copyright does not prevent independent development• Registration is optional, but is required to sue for
infringement
Trade Secrets
• Information that is kept secret and has economic value to the business
• Coke recipe, customer lists, product road maps.• No registration required• Can last for as long as you take reasonable
steps to keep confidential
Contract
• Protection agreed to by contract
• No registration process
• You have whatever protection is defined in the contract (e.g., NDA gives you certain rights to protection of your confidential information)
• The protection lasts for the time period defined in the contract
Patents• A government granted monopoly
– prevents others from making, using or selling your invention– Even if the other’s infringement was innocent or accidental
• Invention must be non-obvious• Protection lasts typically for 15-20 years• Application and examination is required
– Typical cost for application and exam is $10-30k– Typical time for application and exam is 1-4 years
• Must file in U.S. within one year of sale, offer for sale, public disclosure or public use
• Provisional application alternative
What Can be Patented?
• Just about anything . . .– Circuits, hardware– Software, applied algorithms– Formulas, designs– User interfaces– Applications, systems– Business processes (sometimes)
• But not these . . . – Scientific principles– Pure mathematical algorithms
• And, pending Supreme Court Case raises concerns regarding patentability of “methods” inventions
Venture Financing
See:
http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs
What are sources of funding?
Banks AngelsSuper-Angels
Micro-cap VC
Traditional VC
Size of Fund
NA NA $5-20M $20-100M $100M+
Size of Investmen
tNA $10-250k $100-500k $250k-1M $2M+
Source of Funds
NA PersonalInstitution
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Expected returns
Interest rate
2-3x 2-3x 3-5x 3-5x
Length of commitme
ntLong term ASAP Depends 10 years 10 years
Expected ownership
NA <10% <15% 10-25% 25-50%
Know what you’re getting into...
80 winners per year* out of 1,500 VC backed deals
exit >$50M 80
1,420
PASS
FAIL
*IT industry only
...The 80 that “Made It”
>$750M87
20
45
$500-$750M
$250-$500M
$50-$250M
Legendary Companies
2009 in Perspective
8
7
20
45
IPO M&A
Venture Economics
Fund size
$400M
$1.5B
20% return in 6 years
$7.5B
Value creation required
$5B
Decision Tree
Team Deliverable for Nov 22nd, 29th Dec 6th
• Continue to get out of the building and experiment– We expect you will continue to talk to customers
• Iterate your Value Proposition• Test different Customer Segments• Investigate alternate channels• Try different pricing strategies• Investigate your university tech transfer terms
Team Deliverable for Lessons Learned Days Dec 13th and 14th
• Logistics• Dec 13th
– Presentation workshop – Practice presentations for each team
• December 14th – each team presents for 10 minutes– format for the presentation is on the website – note the change in time from 20 to 10 minutes– Concludes by 5pm
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