LA NODE REGIONAL I-CORPS™ PROGRAM

The I-Corps Hub West offers a free regional program with courses taught by experienced entrepreneurs. Teams or individuals who complete the regional program are eligible to receive lineage and a letter of recommendation for the NSF I-Corps National program ($50,000 grant).

 

Regional course participants will learn to:

  • Evaluate a technology’s commercialization potential
  • Find and talk to potential customers and industry stakeholders
  • Identify their customers
  • Identify the real problems the customer needs solved
  • Develop an entrepreneurial mindset

 

Regional Program Part 1

ZAP! introduces participants to the Lean Startup methodology and techniques to direct customer discovery through field interviews.

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Regional Program Part 2

The advanced BOOM course builds on each participant’s Business Model Canvas work initiated during ZAP, by invitation only.