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Lean Startup et Customer Development résumé par Sébastien Sacard L’Open Coffee Club autour du Lean Startup présenté par Sébastien Sacard J’ai participé à l’Open Coffee Club de Paris organisé par Eric Dubois sur le thème du Lean Startup. A cette occasion, Sébastien Sacard (@ssacard), concepteur agile de services Web innovants, est intervenu pour partager son expérience sur l’atelier Lean Startup Machine. Je me propose donc de vous faire part d’un article qui approfondit ce qui a été dit au cours de la présentation brillamment menée par Sébastien Sacard. La Lean Startup Machine est une société américaine qui organise des ateliers afin d’appliquer des méthodes plus « scientifique » à la création d’entreprise.

What a Private Attorney Could Do to Help Avoid Potential Pitfalls Filing a trademark application at the USPTO starts a legal proceeding. Most applicants hire an attorney who specializes in trademark matters to represent them in the application process and provide legal advice. While a USPTO trademark examining attorney will try to help you through the process even if you do not hire a lawyer, no USPTO attorney may give you legal advice. A private trademark attorney can help you before, during, and after the trademark application process, including policing and enforcing any trademark registration that may issue. While you are not required to have an attorney, an attorney may save you from future costly legal problems by conducting a comprehensive search of federal registrations, state registrations, and “common law” unregistered trademarks before you file your application.

50 Useful Open Lectures for Business People Professional development is a key component to achieving success in a business career. However, because of the hefty price tags associated with business development courses and lectures, many professionals shoo away. Forget about breaking the bank—the internet is a massive, untapped resource for professional business development compliments of Ivy League schools and other influential academic institutions. We have collected a list of videos that showcase the best.

Accelerator - an Entrepreneurs' Organization program OverviewIn a series of quarterly, high-impact learning events, Accelerator gives you tools, knowledge, and skills to grow your business to more than $1 million (US) in annual revenue. This comprehensive program also connects you to the most influential network of entrepreneurs on the planet. Through the multiple learning and networking opportunities Accelerator provides, you sharpen your skills both as an entrepreneur and as a leader. Participant Criteria Sounds good — right? Women's Business Resources SBA and the Office of Women's Business Ownership collaborate with many organizations to make the best possible resources available to women entrepreneurs. Whether you are a woman interested in starting a business, applying for a business loan, finding government contracting opportunities, or improving an existing business, this page is a good point of reference for you. Major Partners National Women's Business Council The National Women's Business Council (NWBC) is a federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress and the U.S.

America's SBDC What is UX? - About UX - User Experience - UX Design The origins and meaning of “User Experience / UX Design” may seem a bit murky at first glance, to many not already familiar with it. One early use of it, without “user” prefixed, appeared in the nascent “Advance for Design” meetings organized by Clement Mok et al, under AIGA sponsorship, between 1998 and 2000. Mention is made, too, in the first post to uxmatters.com, of Don Norman using the term at Apple as early as 1993. Though implying a Gestalt approach to interactive media design, that is, using a collection of elements to form a pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts, UX Design also puts special emphasis on the human side of human-computer interaction, and its affective results, rather than on the mere usability—the human performance aspect—of computer interface design, which traditionally relates to the field of ergonomics. Another dimension of UX Design, as it related to the field of web design, is the historical one. share

How can I protect my business, my brand name, my domain name, or published material from being copied on the Web? You should be aware that some matters are not protected by patent or copyright laws. These are know-how, commercial secrets, and ideas (i.e. ideas are for free development). The above are difficult to protect, except by means of a confidentiality agreement. It is necessary to have such a contract to prevent any collaborators, partners, subcontractors, customers, etc., from exploiting ideas that a company wishes to protect. In practice, protection is ensured by undertakings of confidentiality and non-competition clauses in contracts, and penalty clauses in the event of any violation of the agreement.

From School to Startup: Bain’s StartUp Academy Matches College Students With Portfolio Companies Mitt Romney is growing his own. Well, sort of. His old firm, Bain Capital, is taking on the problem of hiring talented tech workers by training them itself. Bain’s StartUp Academy, launched by the company’s VC arm Bain Capital Ventures, recruits students from top universities and plants them in positions at the tech companies it funds. StartUp Academy’s current class consists of 21 students culled from 779 applicants from schools like Duke, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and USC. Comment s'implanter aux USA ? - APCE, agence pour la création d'entreprises, création d'entreprise, créer sa société,l'auto-entrepreneur, autoentrepreneur, auto-entrepreneur, auto entrepreneur, lautoentrepreneur, reprendre une entreprise, aides à  la créa Comment s'implanter aux Etats-Unis ? Ce document s'adresse aux entrepreneurs souhaitant se mettre à leur compte aux Etats-Unis et aux petites entreprises ayant des projets de développement dans ce pays. Il a pour but de mettre à leur disposition des premières informations très pratiques et de recenser les structures d'appui dans les différents domaines tels que les démarches administratives lors de la création d'une entreprise, les sources de financements, l'information réglementaire et fiscale, etc.Sa mise à jour a été réalisée en collaboration avec Laurent de Bernede, Go To Market Consulting, LLC. Aux Etats-Unis (E-U), le droit des sociétés n'est pas fixé par une loi fédérale mais relève de la compétence de chaque Etat.

Innovation: Think big, start small, scale fast! A key innovation message that I spend time with my clients focusing upon involves the concept of “thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast.” (With all due respect, the thought process comes from a customer-service oriented strategy at McDonald’s many years ago, but it is easily extended to encompass innovation in general.) What does the message imply: think big: identify the long term transformative trends that will impact you. Preregister Your Work Preregistration is a service intended for works that have had a history of prerelease infringement. It focuses on the infringement of movies, recorded music, and other copyrighted materials before copyright owners have had the opportunity to market fully their products. IMPORTANT: Preregistration is not registration.

Modeling Interactions between User and Producer Innovation: User-Contested and User-Complemented Markets by Christina Raasch, Eric Von Hippel Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology Christina Raasch Patents, Trademarks & Copyright If you’ve got a great idea, logo, business name, or even an invention, you need to protect it. The steps involved in filing for patents, trademarks or copyrights are covered in this section, along with additional resources that can help you safeguard your intellectual properties, such as having employees or vendors sign non-disclosure agreements. Understand Intellectual Property and How to Protect your Business – This business guide from STOPfakes.gov is an essential starting point for understanding your intellectual property rights and finding the right protection for your business. Applying for a Patent – Learn more about how to apply for a patent through the U.S.