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LaunchPad on GLIDR enables teams to map their business model assumptions and run experiments to gather and share key evidence.

LaunchPad on GLIDR is the #1 Lean platform to discover repeatable, scalable business models. Originally created for the NSF I-Corps Program, LPG’s powerful collaboration and workflow tool connects teams with instructors and mentors to share and review key evidence in real time.
22,744
Teams
752,170
Customer Discovery Interviews
626,045
Hypotheses Created
93,345
Pivots
(Numbers updated March 2022)
Complete Solutions for government
LaunchPad on GLIDR transforms innovation through software that brings accelerated, market-ready innovation to fruition. See how we can do the same for your organization:
Commercialize
LaunchPad on GLIDR accelerates and increases the efficiency of commercialization of innovation.
Apply
Structured testing helps innovators to quickly validate or invalidate key business hypotheses.
Scale
By providing a consistent structure, LaunchPad on GLIDR helps you scale commercialization efforts.
Develop
LaunchPad on GLIDR helps teams turn scientific discovery into viable commercial opportunity.
Business Model Canvas & Experimentation
Business Model Canvas & Experimentation
For program directors
Track changes in the business model canvases week by week, read interviews and easily review the results of business model experimentation.
For team members
Provide structure and metrics to accelerate the search for a repeatable, scalable business model. Define and track experiments to validate important hypotheses, identify key insights and opportunities, and track and share pivots in real time.
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Monitor performance across your portfolio
Monitor performance across your portfolio
Scheduled reports pushed to program directors allow realtime monitoring of team progress. Use the leaderboard to triage the performance of teams within a cohort and allocate limited mentor resources. Use cohort analysis to track the progress and scale of your commercialization activities.
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On-Demand learning
On-Demand learning
For program directors
View how team members are progressing in learning to apply the scientific method to business.
For team members
On-demand learning is integrated into the workflow of the app to help team members develop new skill sets.
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How It Works
LaunchPad on GLIDR enables the practice of evidence-based innovation
How it WorksHow it Works
Features for team members
Iterative and collaborative Business Model Canvas, Mission Model Canvas, Lean Canvas, and custom canvases
Evidence page organized by date and contributor
Aggregated customer insights on your business assumptions
Platform integration with Steve Blank’s Lean Startup videos
Social media-like activity feed for all team’s activities between instructors and teams
Upload presentations to receive feedback from instructors and peers
Customizable team homepage
Interview template creation
Integrations with Chrome Extension, Slack, Zoom and Zapier
Data export in .pdf and .csv formats
Features for faculty and mentors
Interactive Cohort Dashboard of teams’ progress
Customizable “Resource Hub” for course materials
Comment on teams’ hypotheses, interviews, and activity feed
@Mention team members, mentors, and instructors for real-time feedback
View which teams have watched the assigned videos
Add colleagues as mentors and observers
Scoring and comments report for student presentations
Trackable mentor interactions
Feedback tool to provide notes directly to a team
Customizable weekly guidelines and Instructor critique templates
Our Customers
There is simply no way we could have scaled without LaunchPad on GLIDR.
Errol Arkilic,
Founding & Former Lead Program Director, NSF Innovation Corps
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