Wednesday, December 14, 2011

A New Spring MOT Class - The Lean Launchpad

Announcing Steve Blank's Spring 2012 The Lean Launchpad (ENG 290.1/EWMBA 295T.1).

Learn about the experience that turns hackers, hustlers and designers into entrepreneurs. It is one of the most influential classes in entrepreneurship education - Steve Blank's The Lean Launchpad. Put "Steve Blank Lean Launchpad" into your favorite search engine and read the success stories.

Learn how you can develop your technical idea into a real company. Within ten weeks, your team will learn the fundamentals of how to build a startup, with lectures from a teaching team that has built companies and now funds them. More important than the lectures, you will learn by getting out of the classroom and talking to customers and partners. This class will have you work harder then you have ever done before.

Read more of the course description and FAQs on the class website: https://sites.google.com/site/mba295f1/

The class is on Monday nights, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM, starting January 23, 2012. Class enrollment is limited to 31 students - 16 Haas EWMBA students and 15 College of Engineering Graduate Students. In order to participate, you must apply as a team and be accepted. Team applications are due on Friday, January 13, 2012, by 11:59:59PM. Only teams that submit applications will be called in for the final yes/no interview to be conducted during week of January 16, 2012.

Here is how to apply:
The Lean Launchpad is taught by Steve Blank entrepreneur/lecturer at Berkeley-Haas and Stanford. Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and has been a founder or early employee at 8 startups, including 4 resulting in successful IPOs. For the past 10 years he's been teaching entrepreneurship to UC Berkeley Haas School of Business students. The San Jose Mercury News has called him one of the 10 influencers in Silicon Valley.

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