Category Archives: Education

corporate entrepreneurship, Education, speaking

Back helping corporate innovation ventures @ Bertelsmann Creativity Bootcamp 2020 in Berlin

Excited and honored to be invited back for the FIFTH year in a row to support Bertelsmann University at the Creativity Bootcamp in Berlin!

The Bertelsmann Creativity Bootcamp is a three day event that brings together employees from around the world that have great creative business ideas to work on them and present.

What I do is that I help them get ready to pitch management for buy-in with my Pitching Masterclass and by coaching the individual teams through the process of taking an idea into a plausible solution and business proposition.

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Customer Development, Education, entrepreneurship, Events, innovation, Lean Launchpad, Lean Startup

Lean Innovation Educators Summit 2022

Recently I was honored and excited to attend my fifth “Lean Innovation Educators Summit” and exchange best-practices and catch up with fellow educators from around the world.

The Lean Innovation Educators Summit is designed to model the methodologies we teach, as we conduct beneficiary discovery with our fellow Lean LaunchPad educators to improve our courses. A key aspect of teaching the Lean LaunchPad methodology is encouraging students to “get out of the classroom” and talk to others. That’s exactly what we as Lean educators strive to do ourselves at the Summit.

The LEan INNOVATION EDUCATORS SUMMIT

“At our fifth Lean Innovation Educators Summit, we discussed the role of the university and other important organizations in supporting the critical mission of preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. Attendees gleaned insights from keynote speaker Rich Lyons, the Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer of the University of California at Berkeley, about the opportunities and challenges faced by the Lean Innovation Educators community.”

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Education, Events, startup

Keynote: Why exits matter @ DEEP Startup Ecosystem Conference 2021

Today I spoke a bit about why exits matter in startup communities at the DEEP Startup Ecosystem Conference 2021.

My main points were to refresh the audience on the Boulder Thesis, and press the importance of successfully exited entrepreneurs reinvesting their knowledge and money (and also not successfully exited founders reinvesting their knowledge) in the local ecosystem for it to thrive.

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Education, entrepreneurship, Lean Launchpad, Lean Startup

Lean Launchpad back @ Digitalhub Aachen

It’s that time of year again! Happy to report that the Digitalhub Aachen has invited me back to help this year’s incubated early-stage startups too.

This year too we’re running 10 early-stage startups through the Lean Launchpad (LLP) model from Stanford by the father of the Lean Startup movement Steve Blank, for 4 months, meeting weekly to report progress and receive peer review.

The Lean Launchpad format

The reporting format for the peer-review; data talks, bullshit walks

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