The venerable Kauffman Foundation has jumped on the Lean Startup bandwagon.  They just launched the Kauffman Founders School, “an online educational resource dedicated to entrepreneurship.”

The school is organized as a series of topics, each presented by an expert in a handful of short videos.  First topic is Startups, presented by Steve Blank.  If you’ve already seen a talk by Steve then you won’t find much that’s new here – except that the presentation is more polished.

Since I love what Steve has to say, I had high hopes for the rest of the series.  The second topic is Founder’s Dilemmas by Noah Wasserman, HBS professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup.  I haven’t read his book and personally, I find the short-clip format to be distracting.  The videos in this topic are selected sections of  Noah’s speaking to his HBS classes.  Unfortunately it comes off as a teaser or trailer for some other video that has the real content. 

Fortunately the rest of the topics contain well-produced videos – each with an important point or insight, and I would recommend them for new founders.

• Powerful Presentations by Nathan Gold an expert communication coach.
• Intellectual Property by Peter McDermott, IP Lawyer
• Entrepreneurial Selling by Craig Wortmann, Entrepreneur and University of Chicago professor.

And two more topics coming soon:

• Surviving the Entrepreneurial Life
• The Lean Approach