Your startup will probably fail. What about building what customers want? Heh, it just aint that simple.   Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools. Over the course of the weekend you will do the following: Ideate a startup or work on the one you... [read more]

  Your startup will probably fail. What about building what customers want? Heh, it just aint that simple.   Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools. Over the course of the weekend you will do the following: Ideate a startup or work on the one you have now Practice Customer Discovery Research your Target Market Practice Customer Development Test your Assumptions in Iterations Understand your Business Model Iterate and Pivot (when necessary) Build something you can Launch Present your Validated Learnings ...and more Who's this event for? Any startup team that does not have Product/Market Fit or any aspiring founder that wants to learn Lean Startup methodologies from the ground up.   For best results, bring at least one co-founder with you to the event. If you have existing co-founders and none of them attend, you'll have to work on a new startup idea. But don't worry, you'll still learn relevant strategies to apply to your own business. No co-founders? No problem. You'll meet many talented and smart people and have the opportunity to hear their new startup ideas. Got an idea of your own? Great. You'll get a chance to give your elevator pitch at the kickoff.     Mentors and Speakers... Kevin Taylor, Director at Groupon Ray Hightower, Founder of WisdonGroup Bernhard Kappe, Chief Executive Officer at Pathfinder Ryan Lelek, API Rockstar at LaunchRock Ted Gonder, Co-Founder of Moneythink Eli Gratz at VS Networks Neal Sales-Griffin, Co-Founder of Code Academy Marian Mangoubi, Founder and CEO at Little Screen Entertainment Sarah Gray, Builder at Technical Advocates Jonathan Gottfried, Developer Evangelist at Twilio Saya Hillman, Ower of Mac 'n Cheese Productions Dave Hoover, with Groupon Amanda Chocko, Program Director at Momentum Marcy Capron, CEO at Polymathic/Junto Seth Kravitz, Co-Founder of Technori.com Ethan Austin, Co-Founder of GiveForward Daliah Saper, Principal Attorney at Saper Law Offices, LLC  Sheel Mohnot Nick Yecke,  Co-Founder, COO at PVPower Sheel Mohnot, Director of Business Development at FeeFighters These are the TOP brains in this space who will be thinking about your idea, sharing insights into your market, helping tweak your messaging, looking at your UX and even your code in just 48 hours. ONE HOUR of consulting with anyone of these people would be more than the price of admission and you get them for the whole weekend!   Over $500 in Free Materials & Software Included with your ticket... The Lean Startup by Eric Ries The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits KISSMetrics SnapEngage Unbounce Launchrock UserTesting UserVoice AskYourTargetMarket LinkShiftr Balsamiq Keynotopia Google Adwords Bing Adwords Amazon Web Services Microsoft BizSpark   Event Schedule...   Friday you show up, have some pizza and meet mentors and other attendees. Bring an idea to pitch so you get others to work with you OR bring your existing startup team (team discounts available) and work on what you are doing now! After forming some assumptions we break for the night! Saturday those assumptions will be tested with customers, likely most of your assumptions will be WRONG, so you will iterate at a crazy speed creating and validating new assumptions. You will go through several Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), most likely a landing page to test the market and iterate until you will find the right market for your idea. At last, Sunday afternoon you will present your learnings to the other teams and to a jury, this is not just a learning exercise, you will compete with the other teams to win additional mentorship and support.   FRIDAY, Jan. 206:00 PM - Pitches7:30 PM - Teams Solidify8:00 PM - Workshops9:00 PM - Execute11:00 PM - Venue Closes   SATURDAY, Jan. 219:00 AM - Doors Open12:00 PM - Lunch Workshops6:00 PM - Dinner Workshops7:00 PM - Leader Meeting11:00 PM - Venue Closes   SUNDAY, Jan. 229:00 AM - Doors Open12:00 PM - Lunch Workshops3:15 PM - Presentation Slides Due4:00 PM - Judges Take Seats6:00 PM - Winners Announced     Questions: jenifer@theleanstartupmachine.com     ***All tickets sales are final and non-refundable.*** The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by  Eric Ries. // //