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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. program to become an entrepreneur: …I was on my way to the Ph.D… So I started my PhD program.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program. were funded by the SBIR program.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. Over 40% get the military to pay for their college by joining via the Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC ) program. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. Over 40% get the military to pay for their college by joining via the Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC ) program. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback.