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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic

Steve Blank

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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The 5 Key Skills That Successful Managers Possess

Duct Tape Marketing

03:27] How’d you come up with five steps that you lean on as being the critical elements? [05:11] How'd you come up with five steps that, that you lean on as being really the critical elements? I grew up in rural Colorado. Questions I ask Dave Dodson: [02:08] How do you define the term manager ? [03:27]