The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. This week 100 educators from around the world will come to Stanford to learn how to teach it.

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Life is full of unintended consequences.

Ten years ago...

In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn.
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Roominate, one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams, came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session....

Here is the text of the speech I delivered May 10 to the University of Minnesota College of Science & Engineering:

I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation.

This school has a distinguished roster of...

The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it's just going to get worse. It's time to teach cyber security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees.

I grew up in New York City and for a few...

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I'd share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I...

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and...

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of The Startup Owner's Manual. In these series of five posts, I thought I'd share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I...

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." -Groucho Marx

In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was...

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of five posts, I thought I'd share what I learned in China. My post about Japan will follow....

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I'd share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I...

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Start-up Owners Manual. In these series of five posts, I thought I'd share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China...

We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed yet we offer few models about dealing with failure.

So here's mine.
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In my experience, living through failure has...

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your...

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA, Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean...

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman...

The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II, driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. Post WWII, the responsibility for investing in research was split...

Almost every large company understands it needs to build an organization that deals with the ever-increasing external forces of continuous disruption, the need for continuous innovation, globalization and regulation.

But there is no standard strategy and structure for creating corporate innovation.

We outline the strategy problem in this post and...

Thanks to Alexis Finch, Sketchnotes / UX Research Consultant @agentfin.

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One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path...