Lean LaunchPad Educators Program
September 25-27, 2013
Columbia University
We’ve learned a lot about entrepreneurship. Perhaps our curriculum should reflect what we’ve learned? ~ Steve Blank
Program overview
The Lean LaunchPad Educators program is a 3-day program designed for experienced entrepreneurship faculty. It is a hands-on program where you will experience the process, and be given the tools to create, a curriculum and course plan you can put to immediate use.
Led by Steve Blank and Jerry Engel with team of experienced entrepreneurs and educators, this program will challenge you to rethink your approach to teaching entrepreneurship. The Lean LaunchPad emphasizes planning before the plan and searching for a business model before execution.
Who should attend
Faculty ready to challenge themselves to innovate, including:
- Entrepreneurship or business educators
- Engineering, design, and science faculty interested in preparing their students to commercialize innovations
- Experienced entrepreneurs teaching or interested in teaching with University faculty
An application is required
Those interested must apply. Priority will be given to:
- Teaching teams with multiple members
- Educators currently teaching Customer Development or Lean LaunchPad
- Those who are motivated to incorporate Lean LaunchPad methodology into their entrepreneurship education environment
Application approval will be communicated within 10 days of your application. If accepted to the program, you will be responsible for completing the registration process by providing additional information and payment. You are encouraged not to make travel plans until you have been accepted to the program.
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Why Lean LaunchPad?
The Lean LaunchPad, taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech and adopted by the National Science Foundation, emphasizes experiential learning, a flipped classroom and immediate feedback as a way to engage students with real world entrepreneurship.
Students learn by proposing and immediately testing hypotheses. They get out of the classroom and talk to customers, partners and competitors and encounter the chaos and uncertainty of commercializing innovations and creating new ventures.
Your students will do, rather than plan to. Unlike many approaches to entrepreneurship education, Lean LaunchPad does not rely on static case studies or fixed models; it challenges students to create their own business models based on information derived from personal engagement rather than secondhand market research.
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About the facilitators
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Steve Blank is the creator of the Lean LaunchPad, author of The Start-Up Owners Manual and the Four Steps to the Epiphany. He is an entrepreneurship faculty member at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University and Columbia University. Previously he was part of/or founder of 8 Silicon Valley startups. |
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Jerome Engel is a veteran of Silicon Valley. After a successful career advising and founding entrepreneurial ventures, he joined the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 to found the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. Mr. Engel is an adjunct professor at the Haas School of Business, and instructs in both the School's MBA and Executive Education programs, and is faculty director of the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Program.
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PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH
JUNE PROGRAM
Materials
JUNE 2013 PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Logistics info for participants
Pre-course assignments
Lean LaunchPad Educators Handbook
Business Model Canvas
SEPTEMBER PROGRAM
Costs:
$2995 early bird rate, with hotel
$1995 early bird rate, no hotel
$3295 if applying after Aug 1
Registration includes:
- Three nights' hotel accommodation
- Meals during the workshop
- Workshop materials and fees
Dates & times
From: Wednesday, Sept 25, 9:00 am
To: Friday, Sept 27, 1:00 pm
Venue
Columbia University
New York City, NY
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