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 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."

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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.

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.

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.

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