Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom
This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 million to educators who want to bring their classroom innovations to a wider audience…read full post or download MP3.
View ArticleDriving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development
Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but interestingly we see that companies are not larger versions of startups…read full post or download MP3.
View ArticlePioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould
I met Kathryn Gould longer ago than either of us want to admit. Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle, a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a...
View ArticleWhy Founders Should Know How to Code
“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.” – Book of Five Rings. A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team...
View ArticleHow To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle
The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. They succeed by getting out of the building, testing...
View ArticleWhy Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same
For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close to 400 teams in robotics, computer science,...
View ArticleHow To Find the Right Co-Founders?
How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup. Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. I was having...
View ArticleThe Woodstock of K-12 Education
Describing something as the “Woodstock of…” has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering. It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean...
View ArticleWatching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner
In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. When I heard that Larry Ellison was stepping down as Oracle’s CEO I asked Kathryn to think about...
View ArticleWatching My Students Grow
One of the great things about teaching is that while some students pass by like mist in the night others remain connected forever. I get to watch them grow into their careers and cheer them on.Its been...
View ArticleThe Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design
Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it…read full post or download MP3.
View ArticleBorn Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook
Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country to make it so? Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar...
View ArticleWhy Corporate Skunk Works Need to Die
In the 20th century corporate skunk works were used to develop disruptive innovation separate from the rest of the company. They were the hallmark of innovative corporations. By the middle of the 21st...
View ArticleImpact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad
NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup...
View ArticleThe Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland
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...
View ArticleI-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine
Over the last three years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 700 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for...
View ArticleGetting out of the building…by staying in the building!
The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. New approaches to translational medicine have...
View ArticleIt’s About Women Running Startups
“Why is it so hard for a woman to still get taken seriously by a venture capitalist?” Read full post or download MP3.
View ArticleWhen Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check
I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator.Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth...
View ArticleWhat Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle
Last week I got a call from Patrick an ex-student I hadn’t heard from for 8 years. He was now the CEO of a company and wanted to talk about what he admitted was a “first world” problem. Over breakfast...
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