Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Fail Less, Win More: Important Lessons from the Lean LaunchPad
Session Description
From Silicon Valley start-ups to corporate enterprises and to social ventures, CEOs and managers are adopting strategies from the Lean LaunchPad. Pioneered by Steve Blank, named ‘Master of Innovation’ by Harvard Business Review, these concepts draw upon insights gained from years of studying how start-ups thrive or fail. This workshop is not about how to write a business plan. Instead, we will explore new techniques that can help you leapfrog traditional business planning for a more agile approach to business modelling, ‘customer’ discovery and teaming that help an enterprise pivot and scale rapidly.
When | Where
13:15 - 14:30
Wednesday, April 10
Seminar Room A
Session leaders
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Partner, Hornthal Investment Partners
Jim is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, and entrepreneurship educator. His private investment fund, Hornthal Investment Partners, has made investments in over 50 early stage companies. Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, Zignal Labs, LaunchPad Central and M34 Capital. He sits on several boards including KIND Snacks, Revinate, and Via.com. Jim has taught the Lean LaunchPad course at UC Berkeley, Stanford and Princeton and was on the teaching team for the National Science Foundation's I-Corps Program at Stanford and UCSF. He is a co-founder of the American Arab Action Forum within YPO, and has been on the board of trustees of One Voice. Jim is the author of the TED Book “A Haystack Full of Needles". He frequently shares his observations on innovation and entrepreneurship be on Twitter @hornthal
