Bijan pioneered the popular Entrepreneurship Practicum graduate course at AUB (modeled after Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad at Stanford). In 2015 he designed AUB’s Scale-Up Readiness Program that focuses on scale up challenges of companies in $1-$5 million revenue range in the Middle East. The program combines just-in-time executive education with diagnosis of company scale-up readiness as well as coaching to overcome barriers to scaling up. This is the first program of its kind in the Middle East with twelve companies in Jordan which have already gone through the program and are implementing scaling strategies—6 firms have already raised $17 million in growth funding.