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.
Regional Program Part 2
The advanced BOOM course builds on each participant’s Business Model Canvas work initiated during ZAP, by invitation only.