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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

While at the same time spreading the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum to campuses across the United States. The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. Yet this isn’t an incubator.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

This week the team started investigating whether the spectral reflectance curves of healthy green plants are different from weeds, and if so could an infrared Hyperspectral imaging camera be better suited than their current visible light camera for weed/plant recognition. If you can’t see the slides above, click here. The next team was D.C.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens. The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

This means more jobs, new industries and a permanent edge for innovation in the United States. SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology. Lessons Learned.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc.