Steve Blank
JUNE 19, 2014
Today the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class ( I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Life Science. The results from the UCSF Lean LaunchPad Life Science class showed us that the future of commercialization in Life Sciences is Lean – it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 21, 2013
What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? For the last two and a half years, we’ve taught hundreds of teams how to commercialize their science with a version of the Lean LaunchPad class called the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.
Steve Blank
MAY 12, 2015
After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S. The SBIR/STTR program.
Steve Blank
JUNE 7, 2019
All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.)
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