Steve Blank Innovation and Entrepreneurship July 2020

What Can A Startup Do in 5 days? Watch this

Posted on July 14, 2020 by steve blank

With a terrific crew of instructors, TA’s, and mentors, we successfully concluded Session 1 of our Hacking 4 Recovery summer series – with 20 teams sharing their final presentations last night. Slides for these presentations are in this folder, and we will be editing and sharing videos of each presentation shortly.

Alivia – Telemedicine service bringing healthcare to middle income people in Peru
AllAboard – Remote onboarding services to help organizations establish a sense of belonging
AntiCovidAI – Mobile app for testing COVID-19
BBOM Preschool – Teaching social and emotional learning (SEL) to preschoolers
Collegiate Cost Busters – Delivering innovation to make college education more affordable to all
COVered – Crowdsourcing app to monitor risk for visiting public spaces
CoworkingSpace – Redefining coworking spaces in the post-pandemic world
Cratiso – Sourcing diverse patients for clinical trials
Florence Health – Telemedicine app to prevent hospitalization of congestive heart failure patients
HomeDoc – Central hub for connecting telemedicine platforms for nursing homes
Mango Lango – Mobile app that allows small businesses to reopen safely
MatchBook – Hiring platform structured similarly to dating apps
MemLove – Helping people grieve for lost loved ones
MUSTA – Telemedicine platform for patients in the Philippines
Remote Daily – Simplified employee feedback for small businesses
Resilience Gym – Online education and virtual reality to enhance mental health
Safe.ly – Mobile app for making reservations to visit your local stores safely
Sani-Team – Consulting service to help local restaurants reopen safely
Screen360.tv – Cross-cultural education platform using international films
Voyage – Global travel advisory platform for pandemic information

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Educators Summit: Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic

Posted on July 9, 2020 by steve blank

SAVE THE DATE for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit:
Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic
July 24, 10-noon Pacific, 1-3pm Eastern, 6-8pm London

As educators the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us all.

We’ve faced the challenges of teaching remotely, while virtually managing students scattered across the world, keeping students enthusiastic and engaged via video, helping them conduct customer discovery when they can’t get out of the building, and rolling with uncertain teaching schedules now and in the future. We’ve all been making it up as we go and have begun to see a glimmer of patterns of what’s worked and what hasn’t.

Since the Pandemic we’ve taught three classes remotely – Hacking for Defense, Hacking for Oceans and our first of three Hacking for Recovery classes. I know I’ve learned a ton – some surprisingly good and some just surprisingly.

But more importantly there are hundreds of educators who have also learned valuable lessons. If you’ve learned something you’d like to share, or would like to hear how others are modifying their pedagogical approaches for the pandemic, you’re invited to join us virtually and collectively in this two-hour on-line session (with an additional one hour of breakout sessions for follow-up discussions on topics of interest.)

Some of the topics we’ll cover include:

Converting and scaling existing programs and classes
Standing up new programs from scratch
Improving diversity and inclusion in tech innovation education
Addressing K-12 opportunities

We invite you to submit your own instructional innovations for a virtual poster session. We will also be having subgroup discussions to engage in active give and take.

So save the date for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit on July 24th, 2020.

This session is free to all, but limited to Innovation educators. You can register for the event here and/or learn more on our website. We look forward to gathering as a community of educators to shape the future of Lean Innovation Education in the COVID-19 era.