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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. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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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). small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. They specify, design and build a project that may be of use.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. They specify, design and build a project that may be of use.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. We’ve kind of designed the kind of growth that we want. It’s a market.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. We’ve kind of designed the kind of growth that we want. It’s a market.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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