This course is cross-listed with the Full-Time MBA Program. Also this class is through application process only outside of bidding.

COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA295T-1

COURSE TITLE: Lean Launch Pad

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 Units

INSTRUCTOR: Steve Blank, Jerry Engel and Jim Hornthal

E-MAIL ADDRESS: blank@haas.berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP URL):

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Jan 23-Apr 10 Wednesdays 6:10-9:30PM

PREREQUISITE(S): none

CLASS FORMAT: Seminar

REQUIRED READINGS: http://bit.ly/LLPSyllabus2013

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:  http://bit.ly/LLPSyllabus2013

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: Course syllabus: http://bit.ly/LLPSyllabus2013
Learn how you can develop your technical idea into a real company.  Within the 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’ll learn by getting out of the classroom, talking to customers and partners. This class will have you work harder then you’ve ever done before.

Requirements:
-Open to F/T, EWMBA students (first year MBA students not eligible); open to ENG graduate students
-Class is capped at 62 students
-Once team accepts admittance to class - no add/drop
-Teams of 4 preferred, teams of 3 accepted as an exception
-At least 1 College of Engineering student per team
-At least 2 members of the team should have some domain expertise

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
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.

More on Steve Blank and Lean Launchpad: http://steveblank.com/category/lean-launchpad/