This is a briefing meeting on Lean launchpad program (ToTAL’s course of “Practical Group Work for Leadership I【S】” or “Practical Group Work for Leadership II【S】) to be held in Apr-Jun/2020.
If you are going to apply above courses in 2020 1Q2Q (ToTAL students), or are considering to join this program (OPEN students), please make sure that you should be available for the briefing meeting.
1. Date & Time：
23/Jan/2020(Thu) 18:00-19:00
2. Venue：
O-okayama: South Building #6, S6-309B
Suzukake-dai: J3 Building, J3-309 (remote)
3. Students who are to attend：
- ToTAL students who are going to apply ToTAL course of “Practical Group Work for Leadership I【S】” or “Practical Group Work for Leadership II【S】) to be held in Apr-Jun/2020
- OPEN students who are considering to join Lean Launchpad program in Apr-Jun/2020 (both under-graduates and graduates accepted)
- Students who;
– want to foster their own “leadership” or “entrepreneurship”
– want to engage in new business development in the future
– are interested in “startups” or are struggling to expand your business
4. If you want to attend the briefing meeting：
Please inform Prof. Yamada (yamada.k.be@m.titech.ac.jp) of the following information by email in advance.
(1) Name
(2) Student ID number
(3) Faculty
(4) Name of your Academic Adviser (name of your lab)
(5) University
(6) Reasons why you want to join the program or any expectations in the program
<About Lean Launchpad Program>
- Lean Launchpad program was originally developed and launched by Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, US.
- The main purpose of this program are to understand how you establish aims of launching your idea of business into the market and how. Through such experiences, fostering your “leadership” or “entrepreneurship” should be the main purpose. Some students who have already established a company, therefore, use this program to expand their business as acceleration program.
- In the past, some teams got actual orders. Some teams continued activities after the program and established companies. The company called “Odrate”, which joined the program in 2017, is an example.
- Lean Launchpad program was started in 2013 in Tokyo Tech as a part of program of Academic for Global Leadership (AGL). From last year, this program has been offered to Tokyo Tech students as a part of official course in Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL).
- In order to join the program, you need to build a team (up to 4 members) .
- The program will last for about 2 months from April/2020.
- Since 6 teams will be the maximum number for the program, selection will be made on 17/Mar(Tue). During the selection meeting, each applicant team will be requested to make a short presentation about its business idea.
- Procedures and duties to be done to apply to the program will be explained in the briefing.
- For your reference, reports about the program written by attendants are available at the URL below.
– Reported by Megumi Okazaki, 2018 ToTAL student (in Japanese);
https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/news/2019/07/LLP6.html
– Reported by Sameer Deshmukh, 2018 AGL student (in English) ;
https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/news/2019/08/LLP-Report-all.html
