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=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[Kai_Vogeler|Kai_VogelerKai_Vogeler]]Overview</span></span></span> ===
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;">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 </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">and </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">features </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span>global </span></span><span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">partners </span></span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span>such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting</span>organizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:</span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e378-2544-8e20-73abdeaa5450"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; 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></span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;">[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.png]]</span>
=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Distinct Differences from other Offerings</span></span></span> ===
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e414-699e-29e3-8ba4d66c471e"><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></span></span>
<span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><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></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e414-699e-29e3-8ba4d66c471e" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><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="color:#2f4f4f;">features</span></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><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></span>
<span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><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></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e414-699e-29e3-8ba4d66c471e" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-sizevariant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: 11ptbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">it’s</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">intermediate length, there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of information while making the program shorter than say a 10 week or </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">summer long</span></span></span><span style="text-colorindent: transparent36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); text"><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-indentspace: 36ptpre-wrap;">Weaknesses of project. The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the program 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 not apparent, but able to get a company off of the weaknesses of their website ground and staff are apparent. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background running in business. Coming from a different field matter of expertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representativesthree consecutive days. This is by no means a good thing, particularly when combined allows companies and users to get in and get out with the fact that upon requesting their offered materialsprecision, so they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely can continue on with the concise information on the website, the program is not their expansion as clear soon as it could be with a few minor improvementspossible.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); text-indent: 36pt;">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>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); text-indent: 36pt;">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> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47, 79, 79); text-indent: 36pt;">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).</span>
=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Impact Achieved For Students and Campus</span></span></span> ===