Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

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 business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors.

Maryland 280

Maryland Lean DC Virginia 280

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force.

Silicon Valley 265

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 265

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force.

Silicon Valley 157

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 157

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses.

SBIR 120

SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120