Day 1: Frameworks and Challenges
8:30AM – 8:45AM
Welcome to the Workshop
8:45AM – 10:00AM
MODULE 1: How We Got Here - Evidence-based Entrepreneurship
- The story (and your story of the Lean LaunchPad)
- The LLP toolkit: BMC, Customer discover and MVPP
- Education vs. Incubation
- Prior LLP teaching experience
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Break and Activity
Mapping out prior teaching experience with LLP and the nature of opportunities that are represented in the student population
10:30AM – 12:00PM
MODULE 2: Teaching using the Business Model Canvas - BMC Pedagogy
The BMC as a Strategy and Learning Framework
Teaching the Right Side: Customers, Markets, Value Propositions, Product Market Fit, and MVP
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Lunch Discussion Groups/Customer Discovery Exercise
1:00PM – 2:00PM
MODULE 3: The Student Experience - Student Panel: Experiencing LLP
- The Impact of the LLP Course for Students
- The Challenges of Successful Customer Discovery
- Keeping up with the Workload
- Lessons Learned vs Pitching
- What Happens after LLP
2:00PM – 2:15PM
Discussion: Key Learnings
2:15PM – 2:30PM
Networking Break
2:30PM – 3:45PM
MODULE 4: Teaching using the Business Model Canvas - BMC Pedagogy
Resources and Revenue and Cost Models
Metrics that Matter: CLTV, CAC, etc.
3:45PM – 4:30PM
Summary, Build Agenda for Day 2, and Close
6:00PM
Networking Dinner on Your Own in Groups
Day 2: Pedagogy and Solutions
8:30AM – 8:45AM
Welcome and Review Agenda
8:45AM – 10:00AM
MODULE 5: Teaching Customer Discovery - Customer Discovery Pedagogy
- OUT OF THE CLASSROOM: Successful Customer Interview Experience and Learning
- IN THE “CLASSROOM”: Reflective Teaching, the Flipped Classroom, Radical Candor
10:00AM – 10:15AM
Networking Break
10:15AM – 11:45AM
MODULE 6: The Faculty Experience - Faculty Panel: Teaching LLP
- Hearing Multiple Voices of Experience
- Putting LLP into Practice
11:45AM – 12:45PM
Lunch Discussion Groups
12:45PM – 1:30PM
Discussion: Group Reports and Key Ideas
1:30PM – 2:30PM
MODULE 7: Making it Happen: Logistics and Resources - Lecture: Lean LaunchPad Pedagogy
- The Role of Mentors and Advisors
- The Syllabus
- The On-Line Resources
- Using Course Management Software
2:30PM – 3:00PM
Networking Break
3:00PM – 4:00PM
MODULE 8: Education vs Business Creation - Adapting LLP to Special Settings
- Accelerator vs Classroom
- Life Sciences, Energy, etc.
- Hacking 4 Defense, Policy, etc
4:00PM - 4:30PM
MODULE 9: Making LLP Work for You - Lessons Learned
Identifying Challenges and Next Actions
Download the agenda here.