1. NSF I-Corps™
Bay Area Node
Advisory
Committee
Update
October 25, 2013

2. Year 1 Highlights
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Projecting 96 teams trained
12 local Faculty trained plus national Faculty training
7 TAs trained
Projecting 20 Adjunct/Mentors trained
bayicorps.com website up
Testing new healthcare-specific curriculum
Shooting 60-70 instructor and mentor training video
segments
• Testing scalable mentoring & social network platform
• Linking teams to the rest of our startup ecosystems
• Working to build LLP training continuity past the grant
period
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3. Key Personnel
• UC Berkeley
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Richard Lyons: PI
Steve Blank: PI
Andre Marquis: Bay Area Node Manager & Faculty Member
David Charron: Faculty Coordinator & Faculty Member
Jerry Engel: Faculty Liaison with NSF & Faculty Member
Martha-Edith Hernandez: Program Manager
• UCSF
– Erik Lium: PI
– Stephanie Marrus: Program Manager
– Kyra Davis: Program Coordinator
• Stanford TVP
– Riitta Katila: PI
– Angela Hayward: Program Manager
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4. Year 1 Trainings
• 24 NSF Teams: July-August
• 20 Bay Area Teams: October-November
• 28 Bay Area Healthcare Teams: OctoberDecember
• 24 NSF Teams plus Faculty training: Planned
January-February, 2014
Projecting a total of 96 teams in Year 1
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5. 12 Local Trained Faculty Members
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Abhas Gupta
Allan May
Andre Marquis
David Charron
Erik Lium
Jerry Engel
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Jim Hornthal
Karl Handelsman
Ron Lesniak
Stephanie Marrus
Steve Blank
Todd Morrill
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6. Broad Range of Adjunct Faculty,
Mentors and TAs
• Kevin Kopczynski, Rockport
Capital
• Nancy Kamei, Aberdare Ventures
• Ron Star, Arnold Porter
• Shomit Ghose, Onset Ventures
• Lisa Suennen, Psilos Ventures
• Keval Desai, Interwest Partners
• Brian Stell, Clean Energy Partners
• David Hehman, Spartina Ventures
• Tim Wilson, Artiman Ventures
• Liz Rockett, Imprint Capital
Advisors
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• Kyra Davis, UCSF Staff and TA
• Adriana Tajonar,
Entrepreneurship Program
Manager at QB3 and TA
• Martha-Edith Hernandez,
Berkeley Staff and TA
• Kirsten Berzon, Berkeley Staff and
TA
• Dan Manian, Luidia, Berkeley
MBA and TA
• Dino Boukouris, Berkeley MBA
student and TA
• Brian Feth, Berkeley MBA student
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7. UCSF Healthcare Curriculum
• Running Tuesdays 5:30pm-9pm 10/1/13 – 12/10/13
• 28 teams in 4 cohorts: therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital
health
• Teach the teams the Lean LaunchPad framework and help them:
– Identify key markets and customer targets
– Understand regulatory pathways
– Position their innovations for greatest relevancy and impact
• Useful links
– http://steveblank.com/2013/10/11/this-will-save-us-years-leanlaunchpad-for-life-science/
– http://ita.ucsf.edu/entrepreneurship-center/education/courses/leanlaunchpad-life-science-healthcare
– http://vimeo.com/76660776 (Team Vitruvian week 2 video)
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8. Teaching and Mentoring Videos
• Managed by Steve Blank and Jerry Engel
• Video from instructors, role-playing exercises, classes and WebEx sessions
October-December, 2013 (healthcare) and January-March, 2014 (NSF)
• Create video training materials to:
– Help I-Corps teams learn the best practices for customer interviews
– Provide examples of teaching moments and learning experiences to help train
instructors and adjuncts who can’t attend the national training sessions
• Goal is 60-70 teaching videos of 3-5 minutes in length distributed among:
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Role-plays of good and bad customer interviews
Student learning and insights from the training sessions [the Aha moments]
Examples of effective use of the nine Business Model Canvas elements
Effective (and ineffective) teaching moments to inform instructors & adjuncts
Instructor insights and key class learnings in healthcare
Discovery Narratives that show I-Corps teams as they take the journey from
the beginning to the end of the class
• Target public availability Q2, 2014
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9. Scaling Our Institutions’ LLP-Based
Programs: Build Continuity Past Grant
• Berkeley CleanTech To Market Program adopting LLP framework
(~20 teams including NSF funded research)
• Working with Development Impact Lab at Berkeley Blum Center for
Developing Economies (supports NSF and other research)
• Intel Technology To Market Accelerator offered online to 22 teams
in 11 countries
• Framework for Intel Global Challenge (30 teams in 20 countries)
• Framework for UC Berkeley Startup Competition (~150 teams)
• Connecting teams to our incubators, competitions, grant and
fundraising workshops, mentors, ….
• Additional discussions with other government agencies, companies
and international organizations to deliver beyond I-Corps
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