In the course at Northwestern, we superset the LeanLaunchpad course and work with student teams to implement and launch their ideas with customers before the end of the course.
Lately, his LeanLaunchPad course at Stanford has been the model for an intriguing pilot programme called Innovation Corps (or I-Corps for short) which seeks to turn the traditional Silicon Valley start-up model on its head, and thereby reduce the woeful failure rate of new ventures.