Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

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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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

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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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

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. The Lean LaunchPad class may find a place in the military.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Statistics have been vital to the way our governments have provided their citizens with information on the pandemic. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day. It may come as no surprise that the most common employer of statistics students is usually the government. Politics play a huge role in our lives.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

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. The Lean LaunchPad class may find a place in the military.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

These reports might include estimates for production costs and returns, like this one on the University of Maryland Extension Portal. If validating your business ideas interests you more than funding at this stage, you might prefer to opt for the lean planning methodology, which this guide will walk you through doing.

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