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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. 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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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). The participating companies learned a significant amount about their business models, even in this very light-touch approach. The results of the pilot were excellent.

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