300 Teams in Two Years
This is the start of the third year teaching teams of scientists (professors and their graduate students) in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps). This month we’ve crossed ~300...
View ArticleLean LaunchPad for Life Sciences – Revenue Streams
We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. The class has talked...
View ArticleWhen Customers Make You Smarter
We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical...
View ArticleWe’ve seen the Future of Translational Medicine and it’s Disruptive
A team of 110 researchers and clinicians, in therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health in 25 teams at UCSF, has just shown us the future of translational medicine. It’s Lean, it’s fast, it...
View ArticleWhy Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH
Today the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class (I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Life Science. There may come a day that one of these teams makes a drug,...
View ArticleGetting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom
This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 million to educators who want to bring their classroom innovations to a wider audience…read full post or download MP3.
View ArticleWhy Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same
For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close to 400 teams in robotics, computer science,...
View ArticleImpact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad
NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup...
View ArticleI-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine
Over the last three years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 700 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for...
View ArticleDoubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite
I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of theD.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech,...
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