The workshop of "Lean Launchpad(LLP)", the latest and informative training program for leadership and entrepreneurship originated from Silicon Valley, will be available for Tokyo Tech students in 2018 1Q/2Q. The orientation of the program will be held as follows. If you are interested in hearing details about this program, please join the orientation after informing Prof. Yamada of your interest.
Date and Time: 10/Jan/2018(Wed) 18:00-19:30
Venue: S6-309B (O-okayama Campus)
Contact: Prof. Keisuke Yamada, AGL (Yamada.k.be@m.titech.ac.jp)
* A workshop of Lean Launchpad:
"Lean Launchpad" is one of the most important menu in Yamada Dojo. This program is for fostering leadership and entrepreneurship through new business development activities from the business idea of each participants and originated by Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Now a day, a lot of US universities including Stanford University are engaged in this program. In Japan, this program has been adopted in several universities such as Waseda Univ and Osaka Univ. In Tokyo Tech, AGL stated this program from 2013.
Whether you can provide the highest value with users who are eager to have should be the key for the "BUSINESS". It will be worthwhile for you to think about functions of understanding "mechanism of needs" through steps of "establish issues to be solved", "ideation with diversity", "proposing solutions", and "consensus building", which may be the essentials for leaders in any kind of fields including technology development, research, business and policy making.
By forming a team with 3-4 members, your idea of possible future business will be materialized during the period of April-July.
* Outline of the workshop:
https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/education/stories/leanlaunchpad2016.html