The document provides an update on Year 1 of the NSF I-Corps Bay Area Node. It highlights that 96 teams are projected to be trained, including 24 NSF teams, 20 Bay Area teams, and 28 healthcare teams. It also notes that 12 local faculty members and a broad range of adjunct faculty, mentors, and TAs have been trained. A new healthcare-specific curriculum is being tested with 28 healthcare teams over 12 weeks. Efforts are underway to create instructional videos and scale the I-Corps program beyond the initial grant period by integrating it into other entrepreneurship programs in the region.

1. NSF I-Corps™
Bay Area Node
Advisory
Committee
Update
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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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