This publication appeared previously in poets and quants.
We just finished 14 Annual class Lean Launchpad in Stanford. The class had Goths so popular that in 2021 we began teaching it in the winter and spring sessions.
Duration of the quarter with which the eight teams spoke 919 Potential clients, beneficiaries and regulators. Most students spent 15-20 hours a week in class, approximately twice as a normal class.
In the 14 years we have on the legs showing the class, we had something that had never happened before – The eight teams in this cohort have decided to start a company..
This class launched a revolution in entrepreneurship teaching
Several programs financed by the Government have adopted this class on scale. The first was in 2011 when we made this curriculum in the curriculum of the National Foundation of Sciences I-Corps. Errol Arkilic, the then Marketing Chief of National Science, adopted the class that said: “You have developed the scientific method for new companies, using the business model canvas such as the laboratory notebook.”
The lessons presented from spring 2024 Lean Launchpad are presented below.
Neutrix equipment: Make existing nuclear reactors more profitable by improving their fuel
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I-CORPS at the National Health Institute
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Virgil Team: Capture memories of loved ones (and use to do it profitable)
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If you can’t see Virgil’s presentation, click here.
I-CORPS at scale
I-Corps now sacrifices in 100 universities and has trained more than 9,500 scientists and engineers; 7,800 in 2,546 teams in I-CORPS in NSF (National Science Foundation), 950 I-CORPS participants in NIH in 317 teams and 580 participants in Energy I-Corps (in the DO) in 188 teams.
Team claim co -pilot: revoke denied medical claims
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$ 4 billion in risk capital for I-CORPS equipment
1,380 of the NSF I-CORPS teams launched new companies raising $ 3,166 billion. Around 300 i-corps in NIH teams have collectively raised $ 634 million. I-CORPS energy equipment raised $ 151 million in additional funds.
EMY.AI EQUIPMENT – USE OF BRAINWAVES TO BIOHACK MOODS
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Entrepreneurship promoted by the mission
In 2016, I co-created the piracy course for defense with Pete Newell and Joe Felter, as well as the piracy course for diplomacy with Jeremy Weinstein in Stanford. In 2022, Steve Weinstein created piracy for weather and sustainability. This fall, Jennifer Carolan will launch Hacking for Education in Stanford.
TEAXSIST EQUIPMENT – Automation of student evaluations for special education teachers
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DESIGN OF THIS CLASS
While students read launchpad are experiencing what appears to be a topic to be a totally practical experimental class, it is a carefully designed illusion. In fact, it is highly structured. The curriculum has bone designed for us to offer a continuous implicit guide, structure and trial. This is a critical distinction between our class and an open experimental class.
Orientation, direction and structure
For example, students begin the class with their own initial orientation: they believe they have an idea for a product or service (Lean Launchpad/I-Corps) or have been given a clear problem of the real world (piracy for defense). Upon entering the class, students believe that their goal is to validate their marketing or deployment hypotheses. (The teaching team knows that in the course of the class, students will discover that most of their initial hypotheses are incorrect).
Team Maurice.AI – A robot at home for the GPT era
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The business model canvas
The business model/mission canvas sacrifices the guidance of the students, the explicit direction and the structure. First, the canvas offers a complete and visual road map of all the hypotheses they need to test throughout the class. Secondly, the canvas helps students observe objectives by visualizing what an optimal end point would be seen as the product/market to find the market. Finally, the canvas provides students with a map of what week learn week through their customer discovery work.
I can’t emphasize the important role of the canvas too much. Unlike an incubator or accelerator without a frame, the canvas acts as the connective tissue, the frame, which students can resort if they are lost or confused. It allows us to teach the theory of how to convert an idea, need or problem in commercial practice, week by week, one piece at the same time.
WAIFINDER EQUIPMENT – Personalized guidance for high school students to apply in force to the university
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If you can’t see Waifinder’s presentation, click here
Lean launchpad tools
The tools for the discovery of customers (videos, sample experiments, etc.) offer guidance and structure for students to work outside the classroom. The explicit objective of 10-15 interviews with customers a week along with the requirement to build a continuous series of minimum viable products provides metric that tracks the progress of the equipment. The mandatory office hours with the instructors and the support of the mentors provide additional guidance and structure.
Bocketdot’s Bocketdot Bocketdot Self -Learning Solution for Braille Students Team
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If you can’t see Pocketdot’s presentation, click here
A town is needed
While I wrote this blog post, this class is a team project. The secret sauce of the success of Lean Launchpad in Stanford is the extraordinary group of dedicated volunteers who support our students in many critical ways.
The teaching team It consisted of me and:
Our Teaching assistants This year were Chapman Ellsworth, Francesca Bottazzini and Ehsan Ghasemi.
Mentors He helped teams understand if their solutions could be a successful commercial business. Thanks to the head of Lofton, Bobby Mukherjee, Steve Cousins, David Epstein, Kevin Ray, Rekha Pai, Rafi Holtzman and Kira Makagon. They were directed by Todd Basche.
Summary
While the Lean Launchpad/I-Corps curriculum was a revolutionary break with the past, it is not the end. In the last decade, enumerable variants have emerged. The class we teach in Stanford has continued to evolve. Better versions of others will appear. AI is already having a great impact on the discovery and validation of the client. And one day another revolutionary break will lead us to the next level.
But today, we can celebrate, 8 teams in 8 companies.
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