Launching the heck out of the Lean LaunchPad. So do your homework, guys, and make Steve Blank proud of you!
The Basics
Lean LaunchPad for Healthcare and Life Sciences is the inspiration behind the pilot program MedTech Startup School Tübingen. It was first created by Steve Blank and launched in October 2013 at the University of California San Fransisco. The course teaches how to commercialize abstract ideas or innovations and how to create a successful startup business based on them. Due to differences between “regular” startups in computer or material science and startups in the Life Sciences, Blank created a Lean program especially for scientists and clinicians aiming to reinvent life science startups.
In order to achieve this goal the participants need to verify if their idea has enough value to succeed at the market. In a period of 10 weeks they learn how to use business models, how to test their hypotheses, how to cope with inevitable failures and how to adjust their innovations in order to build a viable product and a successful startup. The program is team-based and experiential and offers so-called boot camps where the participants should train how to make the leap from research scientist to scientific entrepreneur. Due to the program’s content, which coincides with the mindset of the MedTech creators, Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad for Healthcare and Life Sciences served as a blueprint for the course in Tübingen.
For more information check out Steve Blank’s website!
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