I wrote about entrepreneurs as artists in a previous post.
The FounderLy team interviewed me and got me to give a better explanation of what I was trying to say in this 2 minute video clip.
https://steveblank.com/2011/04/09/entrepreneurs-are-artists/

​For the past three months, we’ve run an experiment in teaching entrepreneurship.
In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the Lean LaunchPad. It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots.
https://steveblank.com/2011/03/08/a-new-way-to-teach-entrepreneurship-the-lean-launchpad-at-stanford-class-1/

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here.
By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to:

• Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what’s the product? what distribution channel? etc.)
• Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses
• Decide what constitutes a pass/fail signal for the test. At what point would you say that your hypotheses wasn’t even close to correct?
• Consider if their business worth pursuing? (Give us an estimate of market size)
• Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class

​https://steveblank.com/2011/03/15/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-class-2-business-model-hypotheses/

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part three. Part one is here, two is here.Syllabus is here.
Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. (Value Proposition is a ten-dollar phrase describing a company’s product or service. It’s the “what are you building and selling?”)
https://steveblank.com/2011/03/25/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-–-class-3-value-proposition-hypotheses/

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part four. Part one is here, two is hereand three is here. Syllabus is here.
Week 4 of the class.
Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Value Proposition (their company’s product or service.)
https://steveblank.com/2011/04/04/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-–-class-4-customer-hypotheses/

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part five. Parts one through four are here, Syllabus is here.
https://steveblank.com/2011/04/15/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-–-class-5-customer-relationship-hypotheses/​

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. With two weeks and two more updates to go, this post is part six. Parts one through five are here, Syllabus is here.
While we’ve been pushing hard on the teams, this week the teaching team was about to get its socks blown off. All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant.
https://steveblank.com/2011/04/21/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-–-class-6-channel-hypotheses/

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. With one week and one more updates to go, this post is part seven. Parts one through six are here, Syllabus is here. 
With a week to go the teams are starting to look like opening night before the big play. Teams are iterating and pivoting right and left, one team threw their entire business model out the window and did a complete restart, and another team was having a meltdown over personalities.
https://steveblank.com/2011/04/28/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-–-class-7-revenue-model/

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post – part eight – was the last formal lecture. Parts one through seven of the lectures are here, Syllabus is here.
While this is the last lecture, the teams still have one more week to work on their companies, and then they have their final presentations – for 30% of their grade.  All the teams have crossed the Rubicon.
​https://steveblank.com/2011/05/03/the-leanlaunch-pad-at-stanford-–-class-8-key-resources-activities-and-expense-model/

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This last post – part nine – highlights the final team presentations. Parts one through eight, the class lectures, are here, Guide for our mentors is here. Syllabus is here.
https://steveblank.com/2011/05/10/the-lean-launchpad-at-stanford-–-the-final-presentations/​