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LaunchPad on GLIDR enables teams to map their business model assumptions and run experiments to gather and share key evidence.
LEARN MORELaunchPad 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 universities
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:
Improve Teaching Efficiency
LPG saves time by streamlining communication and delivering dashboard views of class activity.
Improve Team Collaboration
Centralized communication and insight enables teams to systematically test business model hypotheses.
Drive Learning Outcomes
LPG is a new approach to teaching entrepreneurship, and makes sure that learning sticks.
Develop Entrepreneurial Skillsets
Build student competence in customer, business model, and agile development.
Business Model Canvas & Experimentation
For instructors
Gain insight into each team's business model and review the status of their current experiments.
For students
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.
Transparency & realtime analytics
For instructors
Gain an overview of how teams are applying Lean Startup principles and evaluate the performance of mentors.
For students
Transparency encourages healthy competition amongst teams.
On-Demand learning
For instructors
Overview of how students are progressing through "flipped classroom" lecture material.
For students
On-demand learning integrated into the workflow of the app helps students develop new skill sets.
How It Works
LaunchPad on GLIDR enables the practice of evidence-based innovation
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
Reviewing LaunchPad on GLIDR is 100x better for me as a faculty member than reading business plans...
Mike Marasco,
Director of the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
We've worked with hundreds of universities including:
LaunchPad on GLIDR Transforms The Way You Teach Entrepreneurship
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