The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t
Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min · 7 segments
This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.
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Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min · 7 segments
This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.
The Lean Launchpad has successfully accommodated 15 years of evolution of technology and markets.
AI is not only changing our classroom, it is changing everything outside the classroom.
The class I designed in 2011 focused on teaching founders how to understand a company's entire business model, not just the product features and customers.
However, there were four important elements outside a classroom or a startup that would affect its success.
How much startups could raise, when they could raise, and who they could raise it from.
Next, how startups built their products, core tech platforms, and development tools.
Then, the cost of building products, time to market, team size, capital requirements.
How did they evaluate buy, deploy, and use products, and the speed in which they did that, and customer build versus buy criteria.
The Lean Launchpad class was designed to teach founders to use lean methods to de-risk their new ventures, all while emulating the speed and tempo of 2011 startups.
The bottom line is that the world is a very different place and operates at a different pace than when I first designed the class.
The Lean Launchpad has successfully accommodated 15 years of evolution of technology and markets.
AI is not only changing our classroom, it is changing everything outside the classroom.
The class I designed in 2011 focused on teaching founders how to understand a company's entire business model, not just the product features and customers.
However, there were four important elements outside a classroom or a startup that would affect its success.
How much startups could raise, when they could raise, and who they could raise it from.
Next, how startups built their products, core tech platforms, and development tools.
Then, the cost of building products, time to market, team size, capital requirements.
How did they evaluate buy, deploy, and use products, and the speed in which they did that, and customer build versus buy criteria.
The Lean Launchpad class was designed to teach founders to use lean methods to de-risk their new ventures, all while emulating the speed and tempo of 2011 startups.
The bottom line is that the world is a very different place and operates at a different pace than when I first designed the class.
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