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Lean Launchpad

Accelerate Program

Lean Launchpad

A model of innovation that systematically launches new businesses,
accumulates organizational knowledge, and improves success rates.

Turn Uncertainty into Progress with Accelerate
Launching a new business means facing three big unknowns:
Will it sell? Can we build it? Will it be profitable?
Without a clear understanding of customer needs and motivations,
no product, service, or business model can truly take shape.

Accelerate helps teams move from idea to impact using a structured combination of
Lean Startup and Agile Development methods.
The program begins with identifying strong customer motivation and the value you can provide,
and guides you through building and testing business models and MVPs in a repeatable, evidence-based way.

This approach doesn’t just improve success rates—
it builds organizational knowledge that can be used again and again.

Over View

Acceleration divided into two stages: customer discovery (Problem-Solution-Fit) and customer validation (Product-Market-Fit)

A systematic phase of approximately four months aiming for Problem-Solution-Fit to determine whether the market exists or not

※Between each “Day”, the PoC and customer validation will be carried out with Scale Out accelerators (buddying).

[Lecture]
Lean Startup
[Batch Mentoring]
-Mentoring on PSF (Problem-Solution Fit) hypothesis
-Next action planning

[Lecture]
Monetization
[Batch Mentoring]
-Mentoring on PSF (Problem-Solution Fit) hypothesis based on customer interviews
-Next action planning

[Lecture]
Revenue Planning
[Batch Mentoring]
-Mentoring on PSF (Problem-Solution Fit) hypothesis based on customer interviews
-Next action planning

[Lecture]
Business Model & Scaling
[Batch Mentoring]
-Mentoring on PSF (Problem-Solution Fit) hypothesis based on customer interviews
-Next action planning

[Lecture]
Pitch
[Batch Mentoring]
-Mentoring on PSF (Problem-Solution Fit) hypothesis based on customer interviews
-Next action planning

[Lecture]
Pitch
[Stage Gate 1]
Decide on transition to Customer PoC phase

Aiming for Product-Market-Fit, each team will be assigned a mentor and will go through a semi-systematic phase

[Lecture]
Goal of the customer validation phase
[Batch Mentoring]
-Team and all mentors gather and set the KPIs

[Lecture]
Provide if necessary
[Batch Mentoring]
-Team and all mentors gather and review progress and revise the KPIs
-Next action planning

[Stage Gate 2]
Make informed decisions about commercialization at Stage Gate 2 (based on PoC results and business viability)
*The timing and exit strategy vary by team.

The Accelerate Philosophy
Whether you’re a large corporation or a startup, succeeding in new business requires grasping real, unmet needs. Our process is built on global best practices like Lean Startup and Agile, and guided by the principle:

Fail Fast. Fail Cheap. Learn Smart.

This allows for rapid iteration with minimal waste—and sets your business on a scalable, upward path.

Co-founders: Keijiro Yamagata & Masato Iino
Lean Startup inspiration: Steve Blank

Agile Development: Build the Right Things, the Right Way
In fast-moving and uncertain environments, agility is key.
Agile Development is a methodology designed for exactly that—it delivers value quickly and flexibly by testing hypotheses in short cycles and continuously improving based on real customer feedback.

Rather than sticking to rigid plans, Agile teams adapt, learn, and evolve—enabling efficient development and faster time to market.

Junichiro Ueno

COO & Director

Meet the Expert  A pioneer in Agile-driven new business development, Ueno specializes in helping teams “make the right things, right.”

The term “batch” refers to a group-based approach to innovation acceleration—like a startup school for multiple teams running in parallel.
By moving several teams through the innovation process simultaneously:

We multiply the number of people with firsthand business-building experience.
We standardize innovation methods across diverse themes.
We convert tacit knowledge into organizational capabilities, accelerating company-wide learning.

This model turns innovation into a repeatable, scalable process.

Accelerate Supports