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User:WillV

2018-02-22T18:02:39Z

WillV:

= William Valentine =

[[File:Will Valentine Portrait.jpg]]

Will is a student at Wichita State University pursuing a major in aerospace engineering with a minor in computer science. Will is involved with several organizations on campus including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as well as is the electrical lead for Wichita State’s Baja racing team. In addition, he is pursuing his private pilot’s license through the Fairmount Flying Club and is interning with GE Aviation. Will is passionate about the future of aerospace-related technologies and hopes to contribute to see innovation in those fields thrive.

==== Related Links: ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University Wichita State]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University_Student_Priorities Wichita State Student Priorities]

User:WillV

2018-02-22T18:01:18Z

WillV:

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= William Valentine =

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2018-02-22T17:59:39Z

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2018-02-22T17:56:58Z

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School:Wichita State University

2018-02-02T01:24:14Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards an Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experiences for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, Honors, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as the Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a special place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom. This is becoming increasingly evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty. Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom. Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''WSU Ventures''' ==

WSU offers a unique opportunity to students and individuals in the community through an organization called WSU Ventures. The goal of WSU Ventures is to assist entrepreneurs and upstart companies with having the resources they need in order to flourish. WSU Ventures has multiple services that it provides including research and development opportunities; research lab space; providing expert feedback on ventures; patent application assitance and guidance; as well as searching for investors. These various services offered to entrepreneurs are extremely beneficial in helping to ensure that all steps are covered throughout the product planning and implementation stages for new ventures.

== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ==

Many faculty and administration feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry. The new Innovation Campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research (NIAR), Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, Inc., and others. Airbus, for example, has relocated their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation Campus. Airbus’ presence on campus allows them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much more aggressive pace than in the past year due to the need to bring advanced research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to transform Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry. A recent partnership that the new Innovation Campus secured in Spring 2017 was with Boston Consulting Group with the goal of increasing collaboration and to advance the Wichita manufacturing industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and Criminal Justice students. Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership with WSU and gives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong. Some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace, the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute for Aviation Research). In manufacturing, the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping with most of these resources being used for Aerospace research. In education, the department reaches out to the schools in Wichita's community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach, but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2018 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kyle_Kopecky Kyle Kopecky]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Aldrich Jessica Aldrich]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:48:51Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership with WSU and gives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:47:25Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership with WSU, and gives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:46:27Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.
<pre>Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership with WSU, and gives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.</pre>
'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:45:29Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership with WSU, andgivesstudents access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:44:54Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnershipwith WSU, andgives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:43:47Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership withWSU,and gives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wichita State University

2018-01-23T22:42:26Z

WillV:

== '''Overview''' ==

[[File:WSU LOGO.png|right|250px|WSU LOGO.png]]

Wichita State University is a public research university of 15,000 students located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. In April of 2014, the university established its commitment towards Innovation Campus with the purpose to transform the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship and economic impact. In line with the school’s vision and its multi-disciplinary concept, Wichita State University is starting to offer new avenues to encourage students and faculty to be innovative while attracting industry partners.

Wichita State is committed to break down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results. At the same time, it expects to create an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business, so it could build new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ==

Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is a foundation of Wichita State University’s curriculum and strategic plan. Wichita State holds Kansas’ only entrepreneurship major as well as an entrepreneurship minor for both business and non-business majors, a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation and an MBA with focus on entrepreneurship. WSU has expanded its degree opportunities by offering an Innovation Design Masters degree, which started Spring 2016. The schools of Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Business, and Engineering are offering courses that incorporate entrepreneurship into the foundations of their curriculum.

Beyond academics, there are several programs encouraging entrepreneurship on campus. Every year students compete in the Shocker New Venture Competition, where winning student groups are awarded startup capital to aid in the launch of their new venture. Students also attend inspirational and informational speaker series focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design, such as Business Booster Series, Shocker Startup Impact, and Lunch and Learn.

The Wichita State campus is expanding to reflect the innovation and entrepreneurship demands of the economy. In spring of 2017, a new makerspace, located in the Experiential Engineering Building, opened to cater to innovative Wichita State students from all majors and backgrounds. The WSU makerspace has the purpose to be a place where people can meet, collaborate and make things happen – it is part manufacturing plant, part design studio and part garage workshop. It’s a place where creative people of all ages and skill levels have access to sophisticated equipment and training, shared work spaces and a supportive community. 

[[File:EEB Eagle 560.jpg]]

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==

Many faculty at Wichita State University identify that the university encourages them to pursue innovation in and out of the classroom.  This is becoming more and more evident through the goals of the university's Strategic Plan. Wichita State University is working towards becoming an innovation university by transforming the world through innovation, applied learning, entrepreneurship, and economic impact.

WSU defines the following words as:

'''Innovation''' – Bringing university researchers, students and industry together to share the ideas that will drive change.

'''Applied Learning''' – Breaking down walls and going beyond the books to provide real-world experience for real-world results.

'''Entrepreneurship '''– Fostering an environment where risk-taking is encouraged and big ideas can become big business.

'''Economic Impact''' – Creating new avenues for financial growth while infusing existing industries with the resources needed for future success.

However, there is a clear sentiment that the incentive system of the university is not in line with promoting innovation through faculty.  Faculty members recognize that the money on campus is in traditional research and building the innovation campus rather than on promoting faculty support of  innovation and entrepreneurship.

An exciting new development is the Brenton Myers Innovation in Engineering Education Award.  The purpose of this award is to provide funds for College of Engineering faculty to introduce new curriculum that is designed to implement innovative and entrepreneurial methods in the classroom.  Although only engineering faculty will have access to these funds, effective strategies that are created by the faculty will be shared with other colleges in the university.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function''' ==

Many faculty and admin feel that the university’s current IP policy generally favors students and promotes innovation. However, a significant portion of the student body and faculty view the IP policy negatively. Wichita State University’s Technology Transfer has been trying to rectify this. For example, they have begun to question the intellectual property agreement and have opened the discussion to students. Some design-based classes lead students to produce academic creations that could easily be patentable. Technology Transfer has made it a point to speak at some of these classes (Senior Design for Engineering). There are even workshops that help students and faculty understand intellectual property and patent law.

Faculty at Wichita State University are passionate about ensuring that students know the copyright and intellectual property policies. In some courses, professors have a lecture dedicated specifically for these topics and offer additional help to students seeking it. The Wichita State University library also offers workshops, guides, and other tools to make this information easily accessible for students.

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==

With the creation and building of the new Innovation Campus, WSU is partnering up with some big industry names to bring collaboration and innovation to its new campus. The goal of such partnerships will be to encourage and improve collaboration and innovation between students and professionals in the industry.  The new innovation campus will boast multiple Partnership Buildings where companies will be able to lease space and work with WSU students and faculty. These Partnership Buildings will open up a new line of networking between students and industry to provide internship and job opportunities. At the same time, the companies will be able to provide and fund new research and experimental facilities. As a benefit to them, they will be able to recruit and new talent continuously.

Some of the companies and organizations that have already partnered with WSU include Airbus, NetApp, Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, National Institute of Aviation Research, Tech Mahindra, iTalent Corp, Youth Entrepreneurs, ABI Group, Koch Industries, and others. Airbus, for example, will relocate their engineering center in downtown Wichita to the new Innovation campus. Airbus’ presence on campus will allow them to access research, testing labs, student employees, and faculty expertise quickly and easily. With NIAR already present on the campus, Airbus relocating to the new WSU campus will add to the research centers provided to students. 

Wichita State is working to facilitate university-industry collaboration at a much aggressive pace than in past year due to the need to bring advance research and experimental facilities for students and faculty. The goal is to turn Wichita State into an innovation-focused university that is partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Wichita State opened a new law enforcement training center on its innovation campus in January of 2018. The center includes training space and classrooms for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, Wichita Police Department, and criminal justice students Students will also greatly benefit from internships, cooperative education and applied learning opportunities through the partnership. The new training center enables the Wichita Police Department to build a partnership with WSU, and gives students access to top-notch training and aid in recruitment opportunities.

'''WSU Innovation Campus Master Plan Walkthrough'''
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=QWz_nNS99iM}}

== '''Engaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts''' ==

Campus outreach with specific industries is very strong, some of the industries represented more than others are aerospace, manufacturing, and education. In aerospace the university engages in a mass amount of research for advanced materials, coatings, and general controls design. Wichita hosts the number one industry funded Aerospace research firm in the nation named NIAR (National Institute For Aviation Research). In manufacturing the university has many researchers who specialize in advanced manufacturing and prototyping, most of these resources are being used for Aerospace research. In education the department reaches out to the schools in our community to create better teachers and facilities. Unfortunately not all of the industries are represented in the university's outreach but there is room for improvement.

== '''Landscape Canvas''' ==

'''Google Spreadsheet'''

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VDLHpMIfUIKNsSHFWEdMuevwmwEyPXPlEuuXo7U-SuM/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hHxmqjMuQbUTPJMk10fkyWJ8tLQYQxM-BGbUg5QWgJU/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pMufSvqgyP1fMYxxMW9wIpk1pnP3xtsueITsylnJWEs/]

'''Google Presentation'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bkny3LY7_kO0MmlMgKrHjbcd3LpXSKaMu_cTBrF6mlg/]

== '''Related Links''' ==

'''Wichita State University'''

[[Wichita State University Student Priorities|Wichita State University Student Priorities]]

[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/ University Innovation Fellows]

Spring 2017 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kelsey_Hanna Kelsey Hanna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isaac_Carrillo Isaac Carrillo]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/LeviLowe Levi Lowe]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mohamed_Moustafa Mohamed Moustafa]

Spring 2016 Fellows

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Galicia Jocelyn Galicia]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jesus%20Gomez Jesus Gomez]

[http://universityinnovation.org/LaRissa%20Lawrie LaRissa Lawrie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Michael%20Schlesinger Michael Schlesinger]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Caylin%20Wiley Caylin Wiley]

Fall 2015 Fellows

[[Wesley Alexis|Wesley Alexis]]

[[Austin Crane|Austin Crane]]

[[Hannah Hund|Hannah Hund]]

[[Kevin Kraus|Kevin Kraus]]

[[Saad Syed|Saad Syed]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T18:33:22Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Distinct Differences from other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">features<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’sintermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.



Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.



Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com] to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:19:44Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Distinct Differences from other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">features<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’sintermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.



Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.



Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:19:17Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Distinct Differences from other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">features<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’sintermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.



Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.



Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:14:55Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:14:32Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website http://www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:14:21Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website http:\\www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:12:53Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>
 [[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:12:35Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website [[www.leanstartupmachine.com]] to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:12:05Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city. Check out their website [[www.leanstartupmachine.com|www.leanstartupmachine.com]]to find your city and see where your progress is.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. When you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. LSM helps set key deadlines for selling tickets to ensure the best event possible.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.
<div> </div>


[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:11:01Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:10:39Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XcdyHuGvzbU" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T07:00:21Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdyHuGvzbU]

The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T06:57:12Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XcdyHuGvzbU" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>



The Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T06:53:07Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major citiesandfeaturesglobalpartnerssuch as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much ''''better way was p''''ossible''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas fail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup boot camp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:39:19Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major citiesandfeaturesglobalpartnerssuch as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much''''betterway''''''was''''''''''''possible''''''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideasfailandfallapart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ http://leancommunity.tumblr.com]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:35:54Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major citiesandfeaturesglobalpartnerssuch as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much''''betterway''''''was''''''''''''possible''''''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideasfailandfallapart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:35:46Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major citiesandfeaturesglobalpartnerssuch as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much''''betterway''''''was''''''''''''possible''''''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideasfailandfallapart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''''''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:35:36Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major citiesandfeaturesglobalpartnerssuch as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much''''betterway''''''was''''''''''''possible''''''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideasfailandfallapart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
''Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.''
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:35:14Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major citiesandfeaturesglobalpartnerssuch as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much''''betterway''''''was''''''''''''possible''''''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideasfailandfallapart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas anddevelopsa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

 

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

 

The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all majorcities,and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives thatnumberof unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this casethe LaadEvangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higherpercent,and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch:[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact:[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:[https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter:[https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr:[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

 

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:34:52Z

WillV:

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:34:35Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities andfeaturesglobalpartners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much better''''way''''''was''''''''''''possible''''''''. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideasfailandfall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:34:11Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities and featuresglobal partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products and showed me that a much better way''''''was''''''possible. A hugely eye-opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

"Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where their ideas failand fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup bootcamp that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:32:09Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful businessinthree days, is globally available in all major cities,andfeatures global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have''''created''''products'''',andshowed me that a much better way waspossible. A hugelyeyeopening''''experience''''for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

Lean Startup Machine has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of cities around the world make strides towards their goal by showing them where theiridealsfail and fall apart.

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is astartupbootcampthatteaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:31:23Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful businessin three days, is globally available in all major cities,and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created''''products,and showed me that a much better way waspossible. A hugelyeye opening''''experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startupbootcampthat teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:31:06Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful businessin three days, is globally available in all major cities,and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslultingorganization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created''''products,and showed me that a much better way waspossible. A hugelyeye opening''''experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. Fromthereorganizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startupbootcampthat teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:29:21Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:29:07Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:27:41Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.



With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>

=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:27:32Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and develops a problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.



With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:22:45Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine helps you fail fast and succeed faster.
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and developa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:22:29Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

= Purpose =
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine helps you fail fast and succeed faster.
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and developa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.

With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>

=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:22:07Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine helps you fail fast and succeed faster.
At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and developa problem, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few hours to create an "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.



With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>

=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:15:54Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===

The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses around the problem-centric approach and team work. 

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business. Next, each team creates an MVP, or "Minimum Viable Product." The goal of the MVP test is to "Get Out Of the Building," speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.

The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.

The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>

=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By: ====

Kai Vogeler

Sabrina Stangler

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:14:15Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===

The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses around the problem-centric approach and team work. 

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business. Next, each team creates an MVP, or "Minimum Viable Product." The goal of the MVP test is to "Get Out Of the Building," speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.

The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.

The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>

=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By:    Kai Vogeler    Sabrina Stangler    [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine] ====

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:14:03Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===

The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses around the problem-centric approach and team work. 

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business. Next, each team creates an MVP, or "Minimum Viable Product." The goal of the MVP test is to "Get Out Of the Building," speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.

The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.

The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>

=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By:    Kai Vogeler    Sabrina Stangler    [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine] ====

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:13:51Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===

The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses around the problem-centric approach and team work. 

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business. Next, each team creates an MVP, or "Minimum Viable Product." The goal of the MVP test is to "Get Out Of the Building," speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.

The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.

The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contact: [mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: [https://twitter.com/lean <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lean]

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By:    Kai Vogeler    Sabrina Stangler    [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine] ====

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:13:43Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===

The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses around the problem-centric approach and team work. 

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business. Next, each team creates an MVP, or "Minimum Viable Product." The goal of the MVP test is to "Get Out Of the Building," speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.

The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.

The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
<div> </div>
[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]

=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
<div> </div>
=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

[[File:LeanMachine.jpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]

=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

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Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By:    Kai Vogeler    Sabrina Stangler    [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine] ====

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:Lean Startup Machine

2018-01-11T04:13:00Z

WillV:

=== Overview ===

The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, and features global partners such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:

''"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created products, and showed me that a much better way was possible. A hugely eye opening experience for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."''

''"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."''

=== Purpose ===

The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses around the problem-centric approach and team work. 

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams. Everyone works on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesis, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which are core to the success of the business. Next, each team creates an MVP, or "Minimum Viable Product." The goal of the MVP test is to "Get Out Of the Building," speak with real customers and to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validation.

The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to pivot their solution (and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather than creating a solution and after-the-fact seeking customers with a problem.

The event culminates with each team pitching its new solutions and its experience using the process. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best idea, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots.

=== Distinct Differences From Other Offerings ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. With this in mind, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzed.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program features the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and strength is the duration of the workshop. Because of it’s intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or summer long project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the third day. To compare this to programs such as I-Corp or The Commons, Milwaukee startup accelerators, which take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and running in a matter of three consecutive days. This allows companies and users to get in and get out with precision, so they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.  

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a different field of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvements.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (see bottom of the section) into a verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of the program, with the purposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the consulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).
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=== Impact Achieved For Students and Campus ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.

The Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.
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=== Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus ===

Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts. In order to organize a program on a college campus, one should follow these steps:

1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see where your progress is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union College, specifically, would have to reach out to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.

2. Register on the website to obtain access to full information, including program descriptions, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blog.

3 Get Some Help: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!

4. Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that number of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union College.

5. Select Date: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are complete.

6. Perks: LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percent, and special discounts upon appropriate communication. 

7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.

8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.

9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]

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=== Contact Information ===

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city: [https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/]

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/leanstartupmachine]

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tumblr: [http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://leancommunity.tumblr.com/]

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor]

==== Edited By:    Kai Vogeler    Sabrina Stangler    [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:WillV William Valentine] ====

[[Category:Resources]]