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We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its Read More

We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF Read More

I can always tell when one of my students has been in the military. They’re focused, they’re world-wise Read More

  Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a Read More

A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal Read More

What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their Read More

  When we started E.piphany there was an equally scrappy startup calledDoubleClick (later acquired by Google for $3.1 billon). Other the Read More

I had a group of ex-students out to the ranch who were puzzling over a dilemma – they’ve Read More

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come Victor Hugo The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum Read More

Not all that glitters is goldWilliam Shakespeare For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” Read More

In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. Read More

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can Read More

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – Read More

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA, Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was Read More