COURSE NUMBER: MBA 295T.1

COURSE TITLE: Lean Launchpad

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 Units

INSTRUCTOR: Steve Blank

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Wednesdays, 6:00-9:30PM

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
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.

Taught by Steve Blank entrepreneur/lecturer Berkeley-Haas/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.