ENGR 245: The Lean Launchpad
ENGR 245: The Lean Launchpad
This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to actually start a high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a business plan. It’s not an exercise on how smart you are in a classroom, or how well you use the research library to size markets.
This class combines theory with a ton of hands-on practice to give you a framework to test the business model of a startup while creating all of the pressures and demands of the real world in an early stage start up.
You will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, and competitors as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works.
Each block will be a new adventure outside the classroom as you test each part of your business model!
Fun fact: Half of the teams from last year’s class are now incorporated businesses!
Join us for our Brown Bag Lunch and info sessions (dates on attached flyer) to learn more about the course, meet the teaching team, and find teammates for the class! More info in the image below.
Please visit our course website: http://bit.ly/engr245 to sign up to chat with Steve B., Jeff, or Steve W. during their office hours or for help finding teammates.
Questions? launchpad-staff@lists.stanford.edu
A) Brown Bag Lunches
The ENGR 245 teaching team will provide an overview of the class and what to expect in the application process. There will be time for questions at the end.
1) 11/1 from 12:10pm to 1:10pm in GSB room C106
2) 11/3 from 12pm to 1pm in 200-034
B) Info Session (and Team Formation)
The ENGR 245 teaching team will provide an overview of the class and you will hear from several alumni of the class on their experience. The 2nd hour of the session will be dedicated to team formation - please come prepared to share a 30 second introduction to yourself and / or the idea you are trying to form a team for.
Join our mailing list or add yourself to the team formation sheet and see other students who want to join a team or have an idea for a team.
1) 11/7 from 6pm to 8pm in GSB room M109 (NOTE THE TIME & VENUE CHANGE)
2) 11/9 from 5pm to 7pm in Thornton 110
C) Team Formation Only
This will be a meet-and-great event focused solely on team formation. Please come prepared to share a 30 second introduction to yourself and / or the idea you are trying to form a team for.
Join our mailing list or add yourself to the team formation sheet and see other students who want to join a team or have an idea for a team.
1) 11/10 from 6pm to 7pm in Education Building Room 313 (team formation only)
D) Office Hours
Meet with a professor and ask them anything.
Click here to sign up for office hours
11/10 - Steve Weinstein OH from 1pm to 3:30pm in G105
11/11 - Jeff Epstein OH from 3pm to 5pm in Y2E2 room 335
11/16 - Steve Blank OH from 3pm to 5pm in Huang B016
11/17 - Jeff Epstein OH from 3pm to 6pm in GSB room G106
11/18 - Steve Weinstein OH from 3pm to 6pm in Huang 306
lick here for more information on applications.
Deadline for applications - 11:59pm on Nov. 19th
Interviews - Dec. 8th based on application.